Communism, Chapter 1: A really bad idea
The first chapter in a condensed history of Communism, its terror, and its death toll.
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Heresies Ep. 8 The War on Our History
The New Culture Forum presents a thoughtful discussion and description of the ongoing cultural revolution and the weaponising of the history of Western civilisation.
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Mass Psychosis of the West – N. Oliver
Neil Oliver speaks about the mass psychosis taking over the West and the intrusion of the state in the sacred sphere of the family.
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Calvary in Kabul
That half of the Afghan population who are women might have a particular reason to dread a renewed Taliban regime in their country as it would deprive them of every single advantage gained since 2001. Civilisation, as we see it, means the freedom to seek and achieve one’s potential. The Taliban are enemies of that civilisation.
They proved this beyond all doubt when in 2001 they dynamited the “Buddhas of Bamiyan.” They were 2000 years old and belonged to the world!
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In Memory of the Forgotten
But the very real Orwellian nightmare of the first Soviet years, from 1917 to 1924, had its very real human victims; numbered amongst them were the “Besprizornye.” These were seven million homeless urchins […]
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The Charters that gave Australians Liberty!
Australians largely take their freedoms for granted, not realising the importance of the unbroken chain back to the English common law, the key agreements, and the system of governance which underpin that liberty. How fragile are those freedoms? It is not inconceivable that they could disappear in a generation if the cultural memory is lost, supplanted by disruptive ideologies or loss of pride in our Western inheritance.
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Reflections on Orwell – D. Duffy
Reflections on OrwellAuthor: David Duffy A little while ago, I chaired a talk on George Orwell and his significance in the year 2021. “Orwellian” is now part of our language and cultural hemisphere. In my vote of thanks, I quoted the early 19th century Russian monk Pechorin in his letter to Alexander Herzen, the famous […]
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The Fog of Woke
The purpose of this short vignette is to introduce you to some of the jargon of Critical Social Justice. The difficulty in understanding someone versed in Critical Theory is that the words used are often identical to the commonly used words, but with completely different meanings and obscured subtext.
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Mulch – D. Duffy
Author: D. Duffy. In this editorial, I will respond to a very strange column which appeared some time ago in The Australian newspaper. In it, the writer said, “I’ve never seen a useful definition of a basic human right, nor ever encountered a supposed example that did not fast dissolve into a blur of conditional […]
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It needn’t be Grimm. Western Folklore in Australia
In 1854, the eminent folklorist Joseph Jacobs was born in Sydney, New South Wales, though his working life was spent abroad – predominantly in England and the U.S.A. He wished that English speaking children could read tales which had emerged from the folklore of the British Isles, rather than those of the continent made popular by Charles Perrault in the 17th century, and the Grimm Brothers in the first half of the 19th century. Jacobs lamented that Perrault’s genius displayed in Cinderella and Puss in Boots had ousted the English classics of Catskin and Childe Rowland. Likewise, Tom-Tit-Tot had given way to Grimm’s Rumpelstiltschen and The Three Sillies to Hänsel and Gretel.
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Law in the early colony of New South Wales
English law was brought to the newly founded colony of New South Wales in 1788, which extended from Tasmania (then Van Diemen’s Land) to Cape York in the north and from the east coast to the 135th meridian (roughly to Coober Pedy). For the first three decades, the colony was administered by military leaders who were answerable only to the Crown, the first of which was Captain Arthur Phillip. He arrived on the HMS Sirius with 11 vessels in the fleet carrying 1480 people – half of them convicts. From the start New South Wales was not to be administered solely as a military prison.
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The Scientific Method – the birth of the quest for truth
Atlas, the Greek god of philosophy, mathematics and astronomy, holding up the celestial sphere of the universe – 2nd century A.D. Roman copy of Hellenistic original.
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Foundations of Western Theatre
The three Greek playwrights whose names echo down the ages are Aeschylus (Ai-skillus) 552‑456 B.C., Sophocles (Soffa-cleez) 496‑406 B.C. and Euripides (Uri-p-deez) 480‑406 B.C. Fewer than ten percent of their works have survived into the modern era. The 5th Century B.C. was the Greek classical age which saw a flourishing of art, philosophy, theatre, and […]
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Greek Lyric Poetry: Works of Sappho, Pindar, and Aeschylus
An excellent video from 1979 by Prof. David Grene (1913-2002) University of Chicago. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.I wept as I remembered how often you and IHad tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And […]
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