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Part-time independent journalist, Australian regenerative & organic farming pioneer 1988 until a total family & Labor Party/ CPSU fraud, lived in virtual exile 13 1/2 years, now part time commercial organic b/ d veg gardener central Adelaide Hills

Notes, Satiric ..It’s Jungle Out There You Young People You..

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They [executive implied direct deductive behavioural bodily-indicated micro and the inductive thoughtful derivative inferential macro] lead on to each other in turn. It is like moving in a circleโ€”you never come to an end. Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination?

*reflective, conceptual ideational

Star Signs, the Game of Thrones, Dungeons & Dragons, an Appetite for Chicken Crimpies & Wikipedia Navigation Patterns May Reveal ‘Curiosity-types’ or dyslexic, discordant, dysphoric, divergent, aberrant or socially, politically & psycho-culturally isolating broadly aphasic neurocognitive-operations which we your exclusively allopathic surgical, therapising alternative-care-arrangemrnts-when-sadly-or cheerfully-there-doesnโ€™t-seem-much-choice & dispensing diagnosticians wait in the wings of your stage-crafted advertising industry driven radically misconceived nonetheless vaguely if not intensively pleasureable lives to help manage collecting reasonable fees from you OK?

And did i mention fire flood food shortage new viruses and levels of ultra-violet radiation hitting the surface of the earth unknown to insect, fungus, bacterial culture, fish, crustacean, phytoplankton, beast, bird, humble herdsman, beadle, magistrate or housewife in 10,000 years, rioting and quite possibly acts of insurrection against your democratically elected governments local, state & federal in the obviously mistaken beliefs that people on good wages canโ€™t do all three of feed household members satisfactorily, pay the rent or attend school outings or any public event that charges admission AND that the hard-working ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธs in the peopleโ€™s multifarious chambers, halls and prayer rooms of garbment donโ€™t give a monkeyโ€™s about them adversely influenced by activists, pro-Palestinians who oppose genocde & ethnic cleansing conducted hygienically in the national interest of our allies for goodnessโ€™ sake and aocial media.

I mean we ask you ladies and gentlemen, arbiters of common sense and good home cooking though you do sneakily admire talking crap to a tortoise about dinner along with huge blue forbidding superannuation savings yak thingies, little childrenโ€™ cots violently hopping across the room, Ikea hoseholds doing awesome deft shit throwing junk into boxes thus cleverly relieving the landfill waste problem which is politically awesome but we mustnโ€™t talk about it lest we upset Kerry Stokes or Kerry Packer oh he died but never mind and the old-fave violent National Australia Bank house with huge ostrich legs – howโ€™s the old IQ, slipped afew points has it? – every boy-child in your home now on Ritalin huh? – the son of that unfortunate loudmouth who began his career studying rattlesnakes at a USAF base in Arizona so have taken to getting in devitalised downgrade stuff in boxes because contrary to our aforementioned high expectations of you it does in fact appear you have significantly more money than sense.

– Be very careful Iโ€™ll have a word to that public expenditure & waste sleuth Angus Taylor and if i can pluck up the courage to put my best foot forward, nose to the grindstone & shoulder to the Sisyphean wheel National Party stalwart Geraldine Clumpstock..

‘The searching patterns of nearly half a million people browsing Wikipedia suggests that users demonstrate three unique styles of curiosity. The โ€˜hunterโ€™ logically pursues specific answers, the โ€˜busybodyโ€™ searches for diverse nuggets of new information and the โ€˜dancerโ€™ links unrelated concepts through exploration. The study used two months of anonymized browsing data from more than 482,000 users of the @Wikipedia mobile app from 50 countries and territories. The team suggests that understanding peopleโ€™s different styles of curiosity could improve teamwork. โ€œWe can be more aware of the fact that we ask questions differently and we investigate knowledge spaces differently, and embrace that diversity,โ€ says human curiosity and learning researcher and co-author Dani Bassett. Nature | 5 min read ‘

Reference: Science Advances paper
  1. The doughty Sun Tzu said: The control of a large force is the same
    principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a
    question of dividing up their numbers.
  2. Fighting with a large army under your command is
    nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is
    merely a question of instituting signs and signals.
  3. To ensure that your whole host may withstand the
    brunt of the enemyโ€™s attack and remain unshakenโ€”this
    is effected by maneuvers direct and indirect.
  4. That the impact of your army may be like a grindstone dashed against an eggโ€”this is effected by the science of weak points and strong.
  5. In all fighting, the direct method may be used for
    joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in
    order to secure victory.
  6. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible
    as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers
    and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to
    begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to
    return once more.
  7. There are not more than five musical notes, yet the
    combinations of these five give rise to more melodies
    than can ever be heard.
  8. There are not more than five primary colors (blue,
    yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they
    produce more hues than can ever been seen.
  9. There are not more than five cardinal tastes (sour,
    acrid, salt, sweet, bitter), yet combinations of them
    yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.
  10. In battle, there are not more than two methods of
    attackโ€”the direct and the indirect; yet these two in
    combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.
  11. The direct and the indirect lead on to each other in
    turn. It is like moving in a circleโ€”you never come to
    an end. Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination?
  12. The onset of troops is like the rush of a torrent
    which will even roll stones along in its course.
  13. The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop
    of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
  14. Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his
    onset, and prompt in his decision.
  15. Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
  16. Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be
    seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all; amid
    confusion and chaos, your array may be without head
    or tail, yet it will be proof against defeat.
  17. Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline,
    simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness
    postulates strength.
  18. Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage
    under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent
    energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.
  19. Thus one who is skillful at keeping the enemy on
    the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to
    which the enemy will act. He sacrifices something,
    that the enemy may snatch at it.
  20. By holding out baits, he keeps him on the march;
    then with a body of picked men he lies in wait for him.
  21. The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and
    utilize combined energy.
  22. When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting
    men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones.
    For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if
    four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if roundshaped, to go rolling down.
  23. Thus the energy developed by good fighting men is
    as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a
    mountain thousands of feet in height. So much on the subject of energy.

Rise & Rise of Electoral Autocracy Particularly in Dumb-di Dee Countries in the Third Decade of the 21st Century

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In the memory of Paul Short, also from a sharefarmer family, and once-upon-a-time on the Cranbrook bus each morning too, of his mum & dad Kath & Keith, and of our superhero footballer Vincent Copley

1. Law, Constitution and Militarised State

“This was the man who fought Hellenistic influence in Rome, and nayurally lost – though a name which becomes a rallying cry for centuries has not altogether lost. It is easy to caricature Cato, for he lends himself to it; and there are many traits in his character which repel us. His treatment of his slaves was inhuman; he gloried in his asceticism; he seemed to deny pleasure to others and therein to gain his own twisted pleasure. He may be called narrow, uncompromising, insensitive, vain, sanctimonious, ostentatiously priggish, if it were not for his humour, self-righteous, if he were not fighting for an ideal. He may have cast himself for a part, and overacted, but his sincerity remains. It is also easy to misinterpret his oposition to the fashionable cult of things Greek; there is something to be said on his side.

“He knew Greek all his public life, for Greek was necessary to any statesman who had dealings with the East. He knew well the works of Greek orators and historians; he took a Greek translation of a Carthaginian work as his model in his book in agriculture. He tells his son to look at Greek literature, but not to lay it to heart, for they are ‘a scoundrel and incorrigible race’.

“It is not intellect which Cato despises, [but the contemporary use of intellect to undermine character. His ideal is the citizen of high moral principle, based on tradition, realising himself in the commonwealth and in business, and so creating a triumphant government pre-eminent for enlightened policy and massive integrity].. his own definition of an orator was vir homus dicendi peritus, a man of high character who can make a good speech.

“The sophists of Socrates’ day had boasted their skill to make the worse appear the better cause, and the Greeks of the third and second centuries2 were their heirs1.

“The self-assertion of individual personality3, such as Scipio loved, was the reverse of Cato’s ideal – action, in the midst of a community, inspired by a moral motive: personal influenc and charm were dangerous, thought Cato, and went to the other extreme.

“The modern self-culture led to sel [fi-ndulgence] in the name of art and fashion. The springs of action as discovered by ‘the noblest Romans’ were dried up at their source; for Cato [as now not perversely for ALL ontology, child development AND MENTAL HEALTH scholars] all true knowledge issued in action, and action revealed the man. Introspective absorption in self and its culture [as MASSIVE tranches and swathes, now VASTLY junk-data-profligate largely European-origin ‘Greta Thunberg’ bourgeois blather and blah having had their ‘pin-point’ aetiological ‘beginning’ or origin in Eighteen-hundred year-old later ‘mid Atlantic’ ‘Introvert-extrovert’ popular psychology attest] meant the collapse of a common morality; and then would emerge the ‘leader’, casting his spell by the cleverness of word and promise over a characterless people.” ..

“The Roman constitution was an oligarchy & it was based on law & custom: the sons of the oligarchy were mltplyng their luxuries: the cult of the indvdl’s tastes and caprices in ndffrnc to all else was being interpreted as freedom: the laws & the unwritten codes were bcmng of less use.

“When Scipio was publicly charged with malversation of public funds in his campaigns, he invited the people to go with him there and then to the temples to render thanks for his victories; for it was the anniversary of the battle of Zama. He was triumphant – on personal influence and popular sentimentalism. No wonder Cato was afraid.

“Scipio was eventually found guilty, but none dared arrest him, and he died in semi-exile. Cato survived him; but, as he himself said, it is not easy to have to render an account of your life to an age other than the age in which you have lived.

“Cato could not win; the Roman city-state was passing away. The wealth of the world, and Asiatic notions of the use of wealth, were entering Rome.

“The ideal of Scipio Africanus and the ideal of Cato stood in open contrast. When Cato was an old man and Scipio already dead, an attempt at the reconciliation of the two ideals was made by Scipio Aemilianus, son of Aemilius Paulus and adopted into the family of his uncle, Scipio Africanus..”

2, The Therapeutic Sensibility

Godness only nose what the preceding five paragraphs bar one were about – let us simply c’est they represented some archaic shit albeit about legendary iconic Roman systematic colonising brutal quadrispheric hegemonists of Two-thouand years ago on the other side of the world well from where we Australians are at, so try this neckst bit OK ?

PERHAPS the letter which Pliny wrote to a friend about the death of the daughter of Fundanus will give a hint..

“I am very sad to write to you, for our friend Fundanus’ youngest daughter has died. [I never saw anything more jolly than this girl, more loveable or more deserving not only of long life but almost of immortality]..

“She was not yet thirteen years old, and she had all the sense of an old woman, the dignity of a mother, the shy innocence of maidenhood with the sweetness of a young girl. How she used to cling to her father’s embrace, and throw her arms round the necks of his friends in her affectionate and shy way. She loved her nurses, teachers and tutors, each in return for what they had done for her. Her reading, how eager and intelligent it was, her play how restrained and circumspect! And think of the self control, the patience, the courage with which she bore her last illness. She did all that her doctors told her to do; she tried to cheer up her sister and father, and by strength of will she kept her weak body going as its strength slipped away. Her will lasted to the very end, unbroken by her illness or by fear of [the death which was to give us all the more urgent cause to miss her and mourn her]. Her death was indeed a bitter sorrow; it’s blow was made even worse by the monent of its coming.. [Fundanus] is a learned and reflective man, the sort of man who has given all his life to serious study and pursuits; now he rejects with loathing all the counsel he has so often heard and given, and, [driving out of his mind every other ideal, he is utterly given up to thoughts of family affection]. You will understand him, indeed you will admire him if you reflect what he has lost. [He has lost a daughter who no less mirrored his character than his features and expression; with a remarkable resemblance she bodied forth her father’s very self..] An interval of time will do much to make him more ready to accept your comfort. A wound which is still raw shrinks from the doctor’s touch, then it endures it and then actually wants it: in the same way grief when fresh rejects and shuns attempts at consolation; soon it desires them and finally acquiesces in them if they are gently made.”

3. Anne McBurney, 11yrs, Died 1961

It turns out inveterate romantic scribbler and Homo-erectile cockwomble Pliny’s wife – not he’s missus, him – er, Possession is nine points of the law when it comes to you chicks – was Calpurnia – her of the world-famous pale cheek (students can search this – aw what-the,. i will be back in a tick.. mother-of-Jaisus4) wrote “believe me there is nothing I should like better than to have you with me.. to get you well again, believe that there is nothing I want more than that you should be well.. If you do what is best for your health you are obeying implicitly my wishes.. Your first business is to get well; of your countless kindnesses to me, this will give me the most pleasure. (Nov. 3rd, 50 B.C.)”

Anne lived in a likely1860 English or Scottish, Cornish or Welsh stone cottage in the limestone country of eastern central Yorke Peninsula – not ‘Yorke’s’ for Christ’s Sake you 20th century neoclassical Socratic Youth-culture Advertising-industry people, please – so you wanna read world-changing cultural neurolinguistics essays then expect a bit of psychic bruising OK? – in a grainlands neighborhood called Cranbrook nobody except old people has heard of nowadays and was picked up for school Monday to Friday in a Kombi driven by Mr Trembath who also lved in a 90-odd years old stone cottage (that got burned out a couple of years later) in the town.

She sat on the north side of of 5-6-7 classroom of the government primary school in the town.

Anne got mingka when she was in Grade 5 and like my dad’s mother Hannah Brennan at Macclesfield 45 years earlier died of TB (tuberculosis, a respiratory system disease5).

Hers was the first death i cared about. I had no opportunity to mourn her except to myself. That was my community’s attitude towards death. Two years before I had fallen unconscious on a balcony off the back verandah after being ‘left to my own devices’ all night essentially on account of gross parental neglect. You learn fast. Fast enough if you’re lucky, Chucky.

John Blundell

Your ‘veteran’ Miracle-goals guy from 1988

Thinking Stuff-through, L,L & E, Quantum-physics, Thematics, Futures

1 Nhh-hn

2 Serious head-kicking Economics professors (transitive verb formatting there) homonymic powerfully ANTI CLASSICAL/ animist/ monist word-game, YOUNG PEOPLE: Purse-anality. …next you might examine the psycho-cultural roots & origins of cognate or similar-SOUNDING terms Parsimony, Pusillanimity and many alia. On Sounds [speech is all and your formal or official Display & Announcement 9performative voice STRICTLY ONLY half of your social self] – (i) take up watching Sesame Street again (ii) channel the antithetical Dr Timothy Leary 4ROM your memory bank (= Tune out from the Other’s read-only memeory nonsense,sloganising or recitations, Switch off all the 2 bit actors, and Drop in to your lived experience households, neighborhoods and local communities

3 the writer knows it’s not best practice to guffaw and slap his sides in a super-heavyweight academic paper that’s set to break a shitload of proverbial hearts and likely impel hundreds of thousands into retirement or immediate withdrawal from public life but check out the objectifying-of-time-intervals implicit in “oh of course, third, second” – Ideas are things monism yet again feeding straight in to the psychoverse of vast culturally and economically energy and water profligate idiot intelligence with no concept either of global environs under a broken sky or futures except absurd projections on junk past historical/ “hysteric” recorded observations

4 In the scene, Calpurnia’s pale cheek is mentioned alongside a description of Cicero’s eyes. The line appears as part of a longer passage that includes: 

  • โ€œBut, look you Cassius, The angry spot doth glow on Caesar’s browโ€ 
  • โ€œAnd all the rest look like a chidden trainโ€ 
  • โ€œCalpurnia’s cheek is pale, and Cicero, Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyesโ€ 

5 A total of 1.25m people died from tuberculosis in 2023 incl. 161,000 with Human Immunodeficiency Viruses – two species of Lentivirus that infect humans

Notes only.. Go to @greeneconomyact

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โ€ข Blundell*^*^*^*^*^โ€™55โ€™*^*แต›

โ€ข Now team, Mr Blundell in Australia is surely slaying the dragons and dragoons of Twenty-first Century racist sexist fascist anti-green and above-beLOW ALL – great tio observe millions of young people around the world mastering and mistressing but NOT EVER otherising or dialecticising their so-called qubits and diacritics – for this is not some pathetic nerd- or social-turd Influencer-game for the bored and affluent in aeroplanes – this is our lives – ISLAMOPHOBIC-psychosis and permanent warfare !

So there are crudely economic headwinds buffeting him as he goes about his daily chores in neurocognitive health prom0tion?
Hah, be a grown-up or be mort.

In moderation queue

John

Philosophy of #Science


Mohammad Mosaddegh[a](Persian: ู…ุญู…ุฏ ู…ุตุฏู‚, IPA:[mohรฆmหˆmรฆd(-e)mosรฆdหˆdeษข] โ“˜;[b] 16 June 1882 โ€“ 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician, author, and lawyer who served as the 30th Prime Minister of Iranfrom 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis.[4][5] He was a member of the Iranian parliament from 1923, and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis,[6] until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iran coup aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr.[7][8] His National Front was suppressed from the 1954 election.[9]

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The English-speaking world’s first embedded television journalist Lise Ducette, extremely famous Christian anarchist Alex Jones, Didn’t I Just C’est That? Memory-test dude Jimmy Carr, Benedict Cumberbatch’s heaps smarter younger sister and Taylor Swift walk into a bar1. First up Mr Jones makes an announcement to all concerning synchronicity, serendipity and lowers vocal tone a little, say 2 steps out of 10 ‘back’ towards the Hushed end of the scale God. What the f… happens next?

There will be a prize.

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I first and last read about USA commercial pop psychology’s NLP around 1979. Human services people and educators from the Jimmy Carter dcd. and Sesame St Childrens Television Workshop era will probably remember ‘Bio-rhythms’ – those PEI waves, yarda freaking yarda, too. – The self-education system or psychotherapeutic practitioners’ and teachers’ schema for authenic powerful self-esteem and human relationships building Carkhuff and Berenson’s Human Resource Development also emerged at the time. – I need to emphasise here that a million of us teachers and social workers around the world in that exciting period of technical research-based innovation with renewed professional schemata and discipline were doing it big-time and changing geo-communities forever and for good, and NOT doing it for any hairy guru, prophet, church, cult, bunch of anodyne Christian Sunday School “Peoplemaker” Virginia Satir or Margaret Kubler-Ross (also 1970’s) anodyne cliches or turgid – if not dead spooky like something out of Salt Lake City Utah – Win Friends & Influence People ‘Dork City with Jimmy Olsen cub reporter’ inspired by a Madison Avenue grunge-bag and ideological fascist like Professor Freud’s brother-in-law..

My only interest in ‘NLP’ emanated from the LCHS – RCHS quick eye movements indicating not crudely Lie or Truth but what i will ever be proud to report became study of ideation and conscious & unselfconscios task execution after I left Adelaide SA for a state government (cops and politicians – evidently the whole bang lot of them) enforced 14 year sabbatical over on our magnificent Great Australian Bight coast with a copy of Ernest Becker’s TLaDoM2 in my jeans hip pocket.

GEA and Olivetti Monkeys always try to keep the referencing rigorous so there follow..

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John Blundell

~ Economics, History, Human (ising)-cultures, Education & Internet Reform

~ Devisor of post neoclassical 2 – 5 set Quantum-relations Thematics-logic urgently targeting 25,000 universities

~ Philosophy of Science

Dr Barry Boettcher urged me to study Phil. of Science not P of Psychology in 1969

1 Bar, ba.? Younger students would have to look that up. But never fear, young people your ‘Mad Sammy‘ and ‘Jumpy Jensen‘ internet will have you sorted in ‘no’ time. Onward a.. and after that the better-behaved among you may bathe in the blood of Jesus and of course come out whiter than white – with stern-but-fair avuncular Sundarajan Pichai and the marvellous Microsoft that’s spent millions promoting its @Copilot AI junk hardware’s Satya Nadella

2 https://www.perlego.com/book/779754/birth-and-death-of-meaning-pdf

Margaret Mitchell’s GwtW Controversial w its References to Slavery – Yankee-doodle Quiz-show

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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher LG OM DStJ PC FRS HonFRSC 1925 – 2013

“Here is a passage from the hymn, though it is almost sacrilege to detach it from its context..

‘As surely as Rome, O ye gods, is your handiwork, as surely as from Troy came those armed warriors who settled on the Tuscan shore – a mere remnant bidden to win a new home and a new city..

‘[So] — so, O gods, to our youth swift to learn grant ways of righteousness, grant to old age calm and rest, to the race of Romulus wealth and increase of its sons, O grant all that is glorious .. Already Good Faith and Peace and Honour and the Modesty of olden days and Virtue so long slighted muster strength to return, and Plenty with all the riches of its full horn is here for all to see.

‘Phoebus with his trappings of silver bow, who foresees the future, who is welcome friend of the nine Muses of Rome, who with health-giving skill gives new strength to tired limbs – Phoebus assuredly beholds with just and kindly eyes these towered hills of Rome and prolongs Rome’s greatness and the prosperity of Latium into yet another cycle and into ages that ever shall grow better.’ ”

The foregoing an excerpt from RH Barrow The Romans Pelican Books, mass worldwide readership, published in 1949; punctuation and syntax reproduced precisely/ precisement to render it a useful document for new-age quantum-relations thematics logic students. – Only the paragraphing has been altered – from one ‘eye-glazing’ turgid vacuous rhetorical tendentious sententious crude 16th century European propaganda blurt riven by ‘fruitloop’ junior High False-equivalence or seriously crook poetry, – creative paragraphing gives the student what may be called in contemporary advertising, marketing, public relations, ‘promotions’ & the Wall Street, Nikkei, DAX, City of London et-set-era ‘economy’ Bite-sized-chunks.

John

Australia, the western Pacific, Melanesia, Indonesia, ‘Far-east’ Asia and a special cheerio to anyone on the magical Kamchatka peninsula

Today iโ€™ve Got This Shit Young People

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โ€œHarris and Klebold died April 20, 1999 (aged 18 and 17)

Jingoes that takes care of the Funerals part of the story-telling on Judeao-christian neoclassical acdemic historical supply-side events-management post World War II raison dโ€™รจtat national-interest geopolitical scorecard neoliberal economic l-i-n-e-s, Team.

– With any post Euro Amerigo Vespucci Holy Mother Church luck at all from this point forward in our anti kiddie-narrative thereโ€™ll be no Christmasses, Easters, Bar mฤซแนฃvฤ: ื‘ึทึผืจ ืžึดืฆึฐื•ึธื”โ€Ž, Bat mฤซแนฃvฤ: ื‘ึทึผืช ืžึดืฆึฐื•ึธื”โ€Ž, debutante balls, engagement parties, stag nights, employment, marriage ceremonies, christenings or baptisms, school reunions or decadal wedding anniversaries though your correspondent will with a judicious respectful balance of sadness and a natural impulse, probably ancestrally Irish not depressive English to celebrate lives โ€˜livedโ€™ include this B-b-birthday stuff ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ

Klebold Sept 11 1981 Lakewood
..and employment

โ€œColumbine, Colorado, U.S. (both)[1]

Dylan & Eric.. Eric was the one often relocated as a kid because he had a United States of America Air Force father] wore trench coats in school, and in general, as part of their everyday outfits, so after the massacre, it was widely believed Harris and Klebold were part of a clique in school called the “Trenchcoat Mafia”, a group of misfits in the school who supposedly rebelled against the popular students.[6] This turned out to be untrue, as neither Harris nor Klebold had any affiliation with the group.[7][8] The pair’s aforementioned writings and videos gave insight into their rationale for the shooting. The FBI concluded that Harris was a psychopath, who exhibited narcissistic traits, unconstrained aggression, and a lack of empathy, while Klebold was concluded to be an angry depressive with a vengeful attitude toward individuals who he believed had mistreated him.[9]However, neither Harris nor Klebold were formally diagnosed with any personality disorders prior to the attack,[10] so this conclusion is often debated. In the following years, various media outlets attributed multiple motivating factors to the attack, including bullying, mental illness, racism, psychiatric medication, and violence in music, movies, and video games. Despite these conclusions, the exact motive for the attack remains inconclusive.

Harris and Klebold have become pop culture icons, with the pair often portrayed, referenced and seen in film, television, video games, music and books. Many killers since the shooting have taken inspiration from the pair (dubbed the Columbine effect), either hailing them as heroes or expressing sympathy for them. Harris and Klebold also have a fanbase, who have coined the term “Columbiners”, who write fan fiction and draw fan art of them. Others have also dressed as the duo for cosplay or Halloween.[11]

As I advised two weeks ago the say 3 documents i’d kept back as drafts-only had to be published in the public interest for their content-significance and urgency in the fastest-moving news ‘days’ or weeks since some wags in Paris began pamphleteering in the mid (since as you all would know GEA‘s & Olivetti Monkeys research standards lean so execrably to wild-eyed – think of those ‘photos’ of Martin Bryant that appeared on the front pages of News Limited (such a play-on-words that’s been since 1964 you crafty old rich people you I don’t know) newspapers – dis- and mis-information as to have come heavily under MI6, FSB, DGSE and even a string of other seriously broken/ broken-hearted national security intelligence offices around the dying world’s notice) 1780s though you’d have to look it up to be able to vouch for the veracity of such a ‘claim’ or possibly bare-faced crazy-asked porkie but it sure was “roaring and humping” in that town in the early 1790s – that literally of thousands of highly readable, incisive and pertinent reports from political journalists are being trashed, siloed or censored in each of those weeks in favour angry numptie ‘Muskovision’ let alone the linguo-cultural educational – for it’s our young we must save from the oligarch-engineered deskilling social-killing fields of the burgeoning array and indeed panoply of other exclusively-for-profit e-comms applications, so you really do want to talk urgent.

OK

Vivek Ramaswamy

John Blundell

South Australia

Sociology, neurocognitive health, authentic post Socratic & post 20th century neoclassical academic post 13th century English ruling class Vernacular versus Hieratic (similar Sacramental, precise Sacerdotal) 2-5 set series quantum relations logic, political theory, post โ€˜Global-ecocidal-deathโ€™ or Christo-fascist economics, 21st century #Philosophy of #Science and the immediate reform of approximately 25,000 universities

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

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David Lloyd George First Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor

In earlier chapters it was pointed out that the characteristically Roman virtue of pietas expressed and strengthened family affection and family ties. We may see one manifestation of pietas in the care for the maintenance of children embodied in the institution known as the alimenta, though some writers have regarded increase of population and [RECRUITMENT FOR THE ARMY] as the motive which inspired its adoption by the state.

Private generosity sometimes.. The cost was met from the interest derived from a capital sum donated to the township. The Emporer Nerva adopted a similar plan in founding the ‘state’ maintenance allowances for 5,000 Italian children, as a beginning. The system was extended by later Emporers, especially Trajan, Marcus Aurelius^, Septimus Severus, and it disappeared in the reign of Diocletian.

Briefly, the scheme was this: the treasury made loans to farmers, who rendered a return of the value of their land; the loan was not more than about one-twelfth of the capital value. The farmer paid the interest at 5 per cent. to his local township, which was bound to spend it on the maintenance of children of the town..

The Emporers were proud of the scheme; Alim. Italiรฆ appers on the coins of Trajan, and Trajan’s Arch at Beneventum shows him greeted by four women, one with a baby in her arms, and by two Roman citizens, one with a boy on his shoulders, the other with a boy at his side. The women, no doubt, symbolise cities.

The foregoing was a verbatim and punctuation accurate excerpt from RH Barrow Pelican Books 1949, a ‘powerful’ cultural education & propaganda tropes, memes & morฤ“s source consciously and semi-consciously for several hundred million political leaders since.

My pleasure to bring to Olivetti Monkeys students.

Don’t overlook the biographical fact I’ve been the Literate-world’s most trenchant and influential McLuhanite scholar and educator for 55 years eh.

John Blundell

‘Headkicking’ Twenty-first ‘Sent 2 re’ Mainstream #Science #History #Ecomomics Politics Futures

Australia

v students you will enjoi this; for three curious years as we all sit around bemused if not a little more agitated than that by the agonising demise of Romance Era Socratic Syllogisms-neoclassicism or ideological neoliberalism – credit there is of course due to emeritus Prof Chomsky – I’ve had a copy locked in storage with the rest of my library of the late Howard Spring’s Fame is the Spur, published I think by a son or a family trust in say 1940 which you can sort-of guess is the quite fabulous life’s story of the ‘First & Second World’ ‘s first national leader to emerge as inclusive liberal centrist not greedy stupored aristoi & not collectivising committee-person socialists, thereby ‘ushering’ into electoral politics an Art-of-the-possible, Every-player-wins-a-prize, en meme temps, environmentally & socially catastrophic compromising endless-conversation, endless negotiation and endless talkfest meliorism inevitably operated (run) by accountancy-firms that word credit for what is now a radical critique – so Laugh\\\\\Cry Team – of Mussolini’s Corporatism JM Fraser former Western-Victoria Australian prime minister deceased, advertising & public relations industry rabbits, corporate lawyers and senior ancien regime (old party) apparatchiks, spies & ‘hit-men’ DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor.. Readers ! Have you all drifted off, again? RU awake? Australian Bloke 4 Foreplay Bob Hawke period.. Ha, 300 or some pages into Fame is the Spur our Main-man wheels out he’s fave Marcus Aurelius quote which goes something like this – 1 for the money.. 2 for the sho [ah].. 3 to get ready.. Now GO cat GO/ Drink my liquor from an old fruit-jar Do anything that you want to do But uh-uh baby, lay off of my shoes – in all ages and histories, in all towns and families [dogfights, shit-fights, bun fights, knife fights ‘n cockfights will oft occur but] they’re quickly over [, chaps]

RV Sampson

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Dear & honourable GEA + ๐Ÿต๐Ÿ™‰๐Ÿ™Š๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ’ readers,

Now that the Microsoft electro-mechanical device is โ€˜kaputโ€™ for the time being at least Iโ€™ve old essays iโ€™ll โ€˜pumpโ€™ out unedited to your proverbial door thereafter in the โ€˜micro-fariousโ€™ permutations of household life insinuating their โ€˜selvesโ€™ into your very own spaces of micro– con-sheusness (which evidently means wild social darwinist heterosexual consciousness for lads & men – weโ€™re all going to be so relived when we leave behind that grotty Hollywood Feminisation Phase of History arenโ€™t we?) for perusal slash mental ingestion on a proverbial scale of one to ten – youโ€™re lucky we donโ€™t use Trackers itโ€™s just that everybody else does because once were liberals, thence socialist dialectitians-with-issues we are all advertising salespersons now so gotcha anyway, this little โ€˜bottlerโ€™ in macro beyond meso-consciousness was generated on 26th April โ€™24 (Iโ€™m informed).

Thereโ€™ll be 3 more old such documents released each day or so now till Iโ€™m up to scratch with long essay publication.

John

Great Sudden Land/ Long White Crowds &c ๐Ÿฆ˜๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒ

In the last 150 years the world has warmed on average by 1ยฐC and our atmosphere now contains concentrations of carbon dioxide that have not been equalled for millions of years. We are today perilously close to Tipping Points, that once passed will send global temperatures spiralling catastrophically higher.

If we continue on our current path we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security: food production, access to fresh water, habitable ambient temperature, and ocean food chains – and if the natural world can no longer support the most basic of our needs, then much of the rest of civilisation will quickly break down.

Please make no mistake: โ€œclimate changeโ€ – MANMADE GLOBAL HEATING – is the greatest threat to security that modern – sorry, any – humans have ever faced.

So as we all must immediately endeavour to โ€œput aside childish thingsโ€ – those of us who are male and might care to be remembered as real men and not postmodern Foucaultian post-fact tits once weโ€™re gone hereโ€™s a hunk of popular debate amongst the aristoi intelligentsia of the City of London from, say, 1860..

Paul-Michel Foucault, 15 October 1926 โ€“ 25 June 1984

CR RV Sampsonโ€™s profoundly alarming read on a spellbinding dialectical read of Christian religious belief animating hatred, violence, exclusion, colonisation and ultimately genocide.

So here you go you @Toyota #Yakuza #Camry #Crows from Adelaide and crazy-arsed Australian lawyers โ€ฆ

โ€œOnce again we discern the familiar argument, caught and ironically pinioned by Matthew Arnold, that there is no unity of truth binding upon men, but only a plurality of echoing voices. Life ceases to be a challenge to evoke a response from our highest selves. It is whittled down to the level of a shabby mart where bargains are struck to obtain an accommodation between competing interests. Arnold continues:

โ€œAnd, on the other hand, we have another philosophical theory rife among us, to the effect that without the labour of perverting ourselves by custom or example to relish right reason, but by continuing all of us to follow freely our natural taste for the bathos, we shall, by the mercy of Providence, and by a kind of natural tendency of things, come in due time to relish and follow right reason.

โ€œThe argument is the familiar one that reliance on our common frailty combined with a comfortable belief in Providence will better serve our welfare in this world than any strenuous and awkward striving after self-perfection.

โ€œThe argument of our contemporary apologists for the contradictions of our liberal, Christian, nuclear-armed fortress bear a striking resemblance to the ‘philosophical theory’ Arnold was at such pains to castigate. The followingquotation is the concluding extract from a review by one of the most influential political theorists in Britain of the doyen of political thought on the other side of the Atlantic:But central to his entire discourse is Dr Niebuhr’s justly celebrated view of man as being doomed to imperfection, unable and unwilling to face this truth, and lured by a fatal mirage of an earthly paradise conceived in terms incompatible with human capacities, engaged in destroying the real world in which alone at least some of his values could be realised. It is the eloquence and insight with which he urges h is central thesis – that man’s idealism and belief in the perfectibility of his species, so far from promoting either freedom or democracy, can be their worst enemy, and that it is man’s realistic vision of his own imperfection that alone makes life tolerable on earth – that has made Dr Niebuhr one of the most interesting and influential thinkers of our day1

โ€œThe ‘original sin’ part of the argument is familiar enough. The theology apart, it reiterates the dictum that you can’t change institutions until you have changed human nature, and combines with it a resigned assurance that human nature is eternally ‘doomed.’ On this diagnosis the world suffers on the one habd from a dearth of people endowed with a ‘realistic vision’ of man’s imperfection, and on the other from a glut of self-satisfying, altruistic wretches striving to improve the lot of their fellows. In fact, the remedy for the evil consequences that flow from violentintolerance is twofold: those who provoke it by their selfish behaviour should be rebuked, while those who seek to remedy injustice should confine themselves to non-violent resistance. But the ‘realistic’ are precluded from making those simple observations, since the privilleged would be the first to be convicted by them. THey accordingly prefer generalities which purport to demonstrate some mysterious connection between good and evil – a paradox whereby the true welfare of men is put in jeopardy by their seeking to develop their own best selves; and their real interests are best served by a faithful reliance upon their wonted compromises.

โ€œIt is time to turn from what Arnold termed ‘genial but pernicious anodynes’ to conclude with a brief restatement of the positive response with which this book has attempted to concern itself. We may concede that there may be a relatively unchanging human nature. The important thing is that there is no fixed pattern or level of human behaviour. What can be attained by one individual, a microcosm of human nature, cannot in principle dbed excluded as beyond the reach of others. human behaviour is made up of many elements, but the standard of aspiration which is accepted is crucially significant. And this is subject to influence by others. Nothing is more potent than the general level of expectation, accepted by those we respect and in whose eyes we wish to stand well. The whole purpose of the ‘detached rea;ist’s’ descri[ption of how the world functions is to discourage us from adopting different standards, denounced as utopian and disastrous. In practice, people frequently appear equally hostile to those who describe common practice truthfully and to those who are uncompromising in their moral aspiration. If the latter rtuns the risk of being labelled a ‘prig,’ the former is assured of the title of ‘cynic.’ Truth of description undiluted by wishful thinking is a necessary safeguard against false optimism. But to allow our moral standards to be determined by the generally accepted level of behaviour is to put ourselves at the mercy of those of least repute. For they too affect tyhe general standards of behaviour. An average is made up of the worst as well as the best. However difficult it may be to practice what we preach, there is no justification for preaching down to our standard of practice. For incessant struggle is a necessary part of the moral life. Phrases such as ‘not allowing the best to be the enemy of the good’ shpould put us on our guard, lest the purpose be to provide an excuse for doing that which is easiest. Circumstances may be stubborn, the dilemma fraught with anguish, the will driven beyond endurance. The really serious evil begins when we begin to persuade ourselves that what was done in extenuating circumstances was on that account the right thing to do. To engage in self-deception leads to a new and lower standard of value. Another common plea of the devil’s advocate is to reproach the moral aspirant with his fallibility. I those who would seek to raise our standards can themselves be shown to be less than perfect, our own lack of effort is obscurely felt to have been vindicated. Archbishop Tillotson once saw fit to remind us that there is ambition in declining preferment as well as in seeking it.He may well have been right, but the remark would have come better from one less exalted.

โ€œAs regards the facts of inequalitywhich are allegedly inherent in human nature, no one wishes to deny the obvious truth that some people are more beautiful or more clever or strong than other people. Realists and pessimists often seem to suggest that their opponents are blind to these elemental facts, and thus distract attention from arguments which are as relevant as they are rarely met, They need to be stated briefly;

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โ€œWhen a man like William Morris beheld the human consequences of the inequalities of condition of the industrial society he inhabited, the spectacle was intolerably painful to him driven by compassion and anger he found himself impelled to leave the artists comfortable retreat for the inconvenience atmosphere of a street corner has things in his determination to do something to fight the evil how he asked can we help the victims of oppression at the same time with ourselves of the guilt of participation in the injustice and he answered the question in this way by announcing our class and on all occasions when antagonism rises up between the classes casting in our lot with the victims With those who are condemned at the best to lack of education refinement leisure pleasure and renowned and at the worst to a life lower than that of the most brutal of savages in order that the system of competitive, this may endure..

โ€œ1 Isaiah Berlin, review of Reinholt Niebuhr’s Nation and Empires, The Guardian 23 Nov 1960โ€

So now, dear reader, you get what I get up to in the Mount Barker Community Library when Mr Musk and highly electorally contestant The Hon Clare O’Neil MP who never seems to get any actual work done decide that Iโ€™ve been just too naughty and need my @HP and 7s shut down for a couple of weeks eek.

Itโ€™s our country and weโ€™re having it back*

John BLUNDELL

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*original usage, probably global but who cares about that historical-lines neoclassical Romance Era 1500 -2000 mindf.ck, Green Economist worldwide newsletter 1995

Balham, Gateway to the South: Hey Everybody IT’s the Hamster-dance

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Google Alphabet has for some 18 months now refused and blocked Typewriter ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’s (greeneconomyaction.com) and indirectly the fabulous @greeneconomyact (on Mr Musk & his Zero-sum Earth with endless fun from playing Pea & Thimble plus Rude-bits plus all-in-all a kind-of ngu-era๐Ÿฎ onscreen Amusement Arcade) X medium

There will be โ€œtears-before-bedtimeโ€ for any and all of these Stanford-inspired gangsters.

Mr Take-a-dump 4ROM the globally hegemonic human deskilling liberal-democratic extravaganza the You-essay

The story of this great struggle cannot be told here.

Hannibal crossed the Pyrenees, the Rhone, the Alps and descended upon Italy, where for fourteen years his army lived upon the Italian contryside, attempting with little success to detach the Italian allies from their loyalty.

After initial failures Rome dared not risk open battle. Q. Fabius Maximus, called ‘the Delayer’ for his ‘Fabian’ tactics, might nibble at the invading army, but no conclusion followed. Roman nerves stood delay no longer. A general was appointed and charged to put an end to the invader.

At Cannae in 216 B.C. the Roman army was annihilated – and Rome never rose to such heights. Patiently she set to work to regain lost ground, and Hannibal was provoked to advance on the city. Three miles away he turned aside; for no ally had joined him, no army met him, no proposals of peace were sent to him. He withdrew. His brother Hasdrubal hastening into Italy from Spain was defeated and slain; and at Rome P. Cornelius Scipio urged and was allowed to undertake the invasion of Africa. At Zama in 202 B.C. victory was won; Carthage was broken.

There are many interesting features about this war. Rome might have expected it to be fought in Africa or Spain; it was fought in Italy and, it fused Italy into a whole.Rome might have expected some respite after victory: she was commited to years of severe fighting in Spain to prevent Carthaginian consolidation there; and, if Spain was divided into two ‘provinces’ in 197 B.C., much work still lay ahead.

She might have expected that after the wars in Spain Carthage would give no further trouble; but Carthage attacked Numidia. Rome decided upon extreme measures; yielding to the increasing demand of M. Porcius Cato that ‘Carthage must be destroyed’, she destroyed the city in 146 B.C., and Africa became a Roman province.

Finally, Rome might have expected the thanks of posterity and some measure of admiration for her inflexible courage and endurance through sixty-five years of war and threat of war.

But such prosaic virtues are apt to pale beside the romantic figures of Dido and Hannibal; and neither Regulus, made immortal in an ode of Homer, nor Scipio Africanus can restore the balance in English minds.

When Vergil, the poet of the augustan age, told in the Aeneid the srory of Aeneas’ journey from the still-smoking Troy to found a new Troy on the Seven Hills he made his hero halt on the shore of Africa where Carthage was being built by Dido, her queen. Aeneas stayed as her guest and lover till his duty to the Trojan gods drove him once more in search of the promised land.

Betrayed and deserted, the queen killed herself and the moving scenes in which Vergil presents the whole drama enlist modern sympathy on the side of the Carthaginian queen; Aeneas the reader of today can scarcely understand. The curse of deadly enmity between the two nations called down by Dido was extinguished only by the extinction of Carthage herself.

..the foregoing WAS a verbatim excerpt strictly textually-framed, iced, psycho-culturally Cap’n-Cooked and literally nonsensised as roman a these “narrow-at-if” authoritarian fiction (Suleiman) in neoclassical academic post Shakespearean mode English “4ROM” pp 35-6 Penguin Books “Ltd” Harmondsworth Middlesex and PB “Pty Ltd” 762 Whitehorse Rd Mitcham, Victoria (“Oi-oi Land”\ Years 10-12 Secondary please identify the text-quotes’ meanings) RH Barrow 1949 + 4 re-prints The Romans

Yours,

John Blundell

Onkaparinga Valley District Hospital 28051949 pictured below with a very politically powerful South Australian lady from the beginning of the TWENTIETH century who made a VERY special effort to ‘drum’ some sense into my person uh.

GA Sanders Headmistress, โ€˜co-edโ€™ (this crazy old British-colonial peopleโ€™s wangka means her school had girls & boys) Unley SA Government secondary school

Microsoft Co-pilot & AI Anti-Historical Referencing + Utterly Frightful Dumbdown Sam Altman Issues ,. Maybe Try Again ., >>

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Students you should make deliberate (not casual ‘quiz-show’ expert/ competitive egotist child actor oeuvre) note that classical textual punctation is utilised in the formatting of the following transcript from RH Barrow 1949 by myself strictly for linguistics education\ Other-branded & diagnosed disturbing element cum bad actor

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โ€˜s whoowhoo 1960s\ and I hope to arouse if not ideationally-activate your new era 2-5set series maths-logic “learnings” (it’s a ‘trip.’ ..enjoi).

“Later, these same hill-men moved down to the plains and settled upon the site of the ‘Seven Hills’ of Rome. They were a pastoral folk. Their earliest festivals were concerned with the interests of shepherds ; milk, not wine, is the earliest offering, and wealth was reckoned in cattle ; the very word for ‘money’, pecunia (whence ‘pecuniary’), means ‘head of cattle’. They found other men of kindred race, Sabellian and Sabine, moving upon the plain and settling upon the higher ground; from the fusion of these settlements Rome took her origin. From her central position her soldiers could move north and east and south – along the valleys north and east, and down the plain to the south ; they soon learned the value of ‘interior lines’ .”

[Students, your lovely drawing of a kangaroo and the flag of Great Britain that we all so cherish we’d like to wrap around ourselves and quite possibly do naughty ‘things’ ‘in’ were inserted by virtue of operator error but i thought hey that’s good – and it’s only taken me another 9 1/2 minutes to jemmy it up and do a brief but not at all perfunctory or peremptory Welcome-to-my-country not wanting to get in trouble with the Professors of English Literature in 42 universities, ncldngย 37 public, 3 private & 2 private international uh-oh make that 16mins 14, 15, 16 .. Will you stop being so naughty Kevin?! .. 47. 56.. But it’s highly pedagogic, Mother. The students are getting well and truly to grips with the differentiated but intimately intertwined 6, 8 or perhaps even10 psycho-culturally generated constructs of time. You’re as mad as a meat-axe, Kevin ;\: you’re worse than your father.]

“Indeed, some have thought that the site of Rome was chosen from the first as an outpost against the Etruscans from the north. And here, for the moment, we leave the Romans, as they join with outlying settlements, and turn to agricultural pursuits and trade with Etruscan and Greek merchants.

“To the north of the Tiber lay the Etruscan empire. The Etruscans were probably sea-wanderers (from the East?) settled at last in etruria, or Tuscany – cruel, overbearing, worshipping gloomy gods of the underworld and divining the future from the organs of slaughtered animals. They built enormously solid walls to defend their cities, and they traded with greek cities and with Carthage in Africa, and thus ‘borrowed’ fro civilisations superior to their own. From the sea they penetrated into the Campanian plain, and in the seventh century tried to move south to occupy it, circling round the hills to the east to avoid the swamps, and seizing some of the Latin towns on the high ground.

“About the time of the Latin migration to the ‘Seven Hills’, Greeks began their long process of seizing the best harbours on the south and west coasts of Italy and the eastern side of Sicily ; the Carthaginians, too, occupied the western half of the island. At first the Greeks wanted only trading stations, but in time colonies were sent from Greece to establish cities which soon became among the fairest of the Mediterranean. Perhaps the earliest Greek settlement was Cumae, on the bay of Naples, in the eighth, and of great moment to Europe ; for from the Greeks of Cumae the Latins learned the alphabet ; the Etruscans too adapted the same letters to their purpose, and passed them on to the inland tribes. From Cumae, also, Italy may first have learned of Greek gods, such as Heracles and Apollo. But the chief settlements of the Greeks werer in the extreme south of Italy and in Sicily. Syracuse and Agrigentum in Sicily, and Tarentum, Sybaris, Croton, and Rhegium in South Italy are all Greek in origin. They are most important in Roman history, for through them Rome came into full contact with the Mediterranean world.

” The Etruscans and the Greeks were the two most powerful influences during Rome’s early years. The rest of Italy was sparsely inhabited by tribes, many akin to the Latins. They lived in comparitive isolation in their hills, tending flocks and tilling the land and grouping together into settlements, as geography allowed, for defence and trade and worship.

“Now let us return to the Romans. The first three kings were Latins, the last three were Etruscan. The last of these was ejected by violence (traditionally 510 B.C.), and the word ‘king’ became anathema to the Romans. Yet the Etruscan influence remained. Temples and rites survived ; Jupiter was still enthroned on the Capitolene Hill, Diana on the Aventine. The insignia of Etruscan rulers became those of Roman magistrates, the ‘ivory chair’, the bundles of rods with two axes bound up with them (fasces). But, more important, Rome acquired an organisation which was to turn her into an imperial power.

“Till about 270 B.C. Rome fought perpetually for existence in Italy, and her fight could not cease till she was recognised as a leading power. The highest qualities of courage and resourcefulness were called for ; one tribe after another was overcome, and was incorporated on varying terms into the Roman state or sphere of influence. Leagues and alliances were created. At one crisis, the sacking of Rome by roving Gauls in 390 B.C. – the Latin cities failed to aid her ; they suggested federation, and Rome made up her mind that safety lay only in their conquest. At great self-sacrifice she reduced them to obedience, and then went forward as tribe after tribe appealed to her for aid, and eventually for alliance and the extension of her ‘rights’ to their cities. At last, Thurii, in the ‘instep’ appealed for aid against Tarentum. Rome hesitated – and agreed. Tarentum brought in Phyrrus, King of Epirus across the Adriatic ; and Rome emerged from his invasion of Italy the leader of the Greek states in South Italy. Thus, she passed into the sphere of the Carthaginians whose trade covered the seas of Sicily aand thge Western Mediterranean After half a century of struggle (264 – 202 B.C.) it was decided that Rome should become a ‘world power’, and that the lands of the West should be ruled by an Aryan, not a Semitic race.”

Oh hoodly-doodly young people we have really or at least virtually

– KEVIN, will you stop playing the class clown ?!

Mum it’s just a bit of a gag – i’ve been trying to teach our manly but largely vile priapist sheeple mweeple freeple, the St John the galaxy-scale bonghead of the Isle of Patmos – or Nova Scotia or was it Newfoundland – there be dragons and were icebergs floating by – the Bernaysians & the Lost-it Friedmanites about the Dialectics of the Damned which do they believe it or not don’t actually trade off or read out neatly or at all for goodness’ sake either with Quantum-relation qubits or Noah’s Freaking Arc – of the Covenant, you what – carpenter’s cubits since I wrote that one and only neat succinct short essay of the name for Green Economist newsletter in i believe1994.

Perhaps a note on the ontology of belief – to touch lightly on the questions of time at the beginning of this essay for I don’t want readers trampling any primary schooler’s or teenagers dream I do believe 1994 (and a heap of other years back to 1912 when my late father was born), no?

And a note – it’s a government-breaker this one. “Getting Franklinโ€™s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going into science. She was up against not just the routine sexism of the day, but also more subtle forms embedded in science โ€” some of which are still present today…” so coy it’s Yogi Bear, Barny Rubble & Buffy Vampire-slayer cute, huh? Erp. Thank you for your readership. – You didn’t sign any paper? Oh yeh…

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5

John Blundell

Australia