Geoffrey Blainey | History Revised |
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Professor Geoffrey Blainey, Australia's most prominent historian, discusses the rising, and increasingly negative view of our history which pits good against evil, whilst ignoring the fact that history is always more complicated.
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Western countries are among the few that go out of their way to celebrate and remember the native or downtrodden. You don't see Pakistan celebrating Hindus.
Mile Creeks happened all over the world. Thankfully we are heirs to a civilisation in which it is extraordinary, condemned, corrected and remembered.
Its Never This OR That, its always This And That.
Geoffrey makes a very good (and very scary) point; the primary schools are the great educators of society, because all children must pass through them in order to progress. Not everyone goes to college, for one reason or another. But all people pass through primary schools, and they're greatly affected by that. Those who control the children of today, control the adults of tomorrow...
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@Paul Gavin Do you seriously believe politically left leaning is some kind of new invention? Roflmao. Karl Marx 'the communist manifesto' was first published in 1848... The UKs Whig party (precursor to the labour party) was first registered in 1678. Might want to try reading some history and using your brain before commenting.
Despite the best attempts of the yanks to export their political divisions to Australia, we don't really have political extremists here outside of the tiny pockets of idiots who can't tell the difference between the USA and Australia.
Your assertion about being environmental custodians and not socially progressing is as equally ill informed as your thoughts on political ideology.
@@tjmarx Interesting bit of history there. USA vs Australia ? FFS ! Britain gets away with it again then !? Present day sh1te is being managed by the "the pilgrim society" ever heard of them. FFS STOP blaming the USA will ya ?!!! This is down to the SCUM that exists not only in Westminster, but over the road aways in buck house too COVID-19 is entirely down to QEII ! YES !!! If you want to find out who has reasearched this ACCURATELY, then have a look in here www.aim4truth.org. STOP blaming the US of A. They are merely doing as they are told FFS ! Am a Brit by the way !
The 'care' and early childhood settings (including 'childcare' and primary school) are most directly targeted for commodifying children. Multi-purpose tech (particularly the surveillance playtables being used now in some of the larger ''childcare' centres, in large cities like Melbourne) capture increasingly intimate data which feeds impact bonds (I don't hear 'progressive' academics challenging hedge fund groups betting for/against vulnerable children, particularly refugees and remote indigenous communities).
The data flow (obtained without informed consent from parents) also feeds robotics research and development, and is also used to 'humanise' Ai systems. This is unwaged child labour and never discussed on public platforms (television or news-print 'journalists - of every political persuasion - seem unable to cover these significant issues).
The shift in early childhood settings to data collecting (increasingly to feed the anticipated roll-out /expansion of human capital futures trading) was very noticeable in 2008, with the expansion of social impact finance. The data collectors (who were once called carers, and now carefully - misleadingly- labelled 'educators') are now remarkably young, and are told, in training, that early childhood is now an 'industry' in which children represent a return on investment. The very young data collectors/'educators' I am consistently speaking with are not given key information about the use of children's data feeding impact finance or robotics R&D, or about the data being used to 'humanise' Ai systems.
My point is that these projects are run as an ambush, and without informed consent.
Interesting article 'Childhood Captured' (& an abundance of extremely lucid, useful research) on wrenchinthegears .com
Ps. Geoffrey Blainey is a wonderful man - he is my neighbour and one of the very few of the 'academic' class willing to listen and discuss the issues I touched on in this brief comment. 🌻
Loving Professor Geoffrey Blainey's soft-spoken challenge: "If you want to criticize, then why not do something POSITIVE, yourself?"
Fantastic!!! Keep up the great work! USA loves you!
He is just an old conservative. Nothing else.
What a treat. I ready Blainey's book on the origins of war in the 70s - it was then and remains a masterpiece. One of my grad school gurus, the late Paul Seabury was also a serious fan.
A great interview for minds that tolerate the concept of history being more complicated and dynamic than today's (biased, revised, cookie cutter) educators roll out pre-K to 12 & plus.
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The Australia Day in Coffs Harbour celebrating their culture.
Rather than focusing narrowly on should or should we not celebrate Australia day on 26 January, why not open up the broader question of what days should we celebrate with public holidays? Our current pattern of holidays is based on the realities of Australia of 19th and early 20th century Australia when we were very much a mono-cultural society. But times change and today we are a vibrant multicultural society drawn from across the globe. Let's reflect that in our holidays, and give a nod to all the peoples and cultures that make up our great nation (spread the love as it were). Perhaps Chinese New Year to acknowledge our east Asian heritage, Diwali to respect our South Asian community, and maybe celebrate Eid with our Muslim community although Eid's habit of migrating right through the year might cause issues? In amongst this process of change we might find space to celebrate the totality our our shared experience in a national day. I personally find Referendum Day, May 27 a good option for Australia Day. To me, it is the day we voted to become one people. Mind you, Wattle Day, 1 September is also a winner with our national symbol the wattle in bloom right across the country. Whatever, the black vs white debate reflects the Australia of long ago and is never going to get us far.
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Eid and Diwali are religious not cultural though and Chinese new year is celebrated widely. Why not Passover, Nirvana day and Pioneers Day ( mormons). And lets restore Christmas to a Christian festival if we go down that route although lefties who root for "exotic" faiths have done their best to water that one down.
The way these videos abruptly end, mid sentence sometimes, is very jarring. Please do more to end videos gracefully.
What's un-graceful about ending with, "History is more complicated than it appears when we ascribe ill intent to ppl who've been very well intentioned"? When I want "graceful" I adjust speed to 0.75x of normal.
Every culture has skeletons in their closet, I agree we need to have a sober view of history
The easiest way to interpret history is to view specific events through the lens of the year you live in. Also the least accurate. I (hopefully) taught my students to avoid tempocentrism.
It is not madness to move the Australia day date. It is really an insult to pick the 26th January. Once again the "whites" are dictating how the Aboriginals are to feel and how they celebrate or not celebrate the date! And this is the problem!
Try reading David Mahers book . It was and is a layered history.
'History Revisited' better title.
How will we Whites survive when Blainey and Windschuttle are gone?
National Treasure
talking of murders and massacres, do not of course forget those against the English settlers. One example was the Cullin-la-ringo massacre of 19 men, women and children by an aboriginal group. Rather an interesting if not very sad story.
What other colonial power would have been better? The continent was always going to be settled.
this guy is 90
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What an intelligent response.
I think you need to speak to people other than white males who agree with you.
Adrian, You object to them saying, "History is more complicated than it appears if we ascribe ill intent to ppl who've been very well intentioned." You reject them bcuz YOU'RE ascribing ill intent instead of hearing their facts.