Category Archives: Personal rights

RIVER BRIDGE COULD WORSEN FLOODING

I estimate the central pier of the bridge at the Queens Wharf development to be about 20 metres wide and 60 metres long. This obstacle to flow of the Brisbane River in flood could contract the flow channel, raise backwater and damage residents’ homes. Even a few more centimetres could be devastating. In 2017 it was reported that the pier was being resized and relocated but details were not provided.

What increase in flood height resulted in the 2022 flood. Did floating debris build up?

https://architectureau.com/articles/revised-designs-for-dramatic-queens-wharf-bridge-released/

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Posted in Personal rights, Urban Development

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Tags: Australia, bridges, Brisbane River, channel obstruction, prevention of flooding, river flood, river flow

INDIVIDUALISM TODAY

Sep 8

Posted by martinknox

Individualism began with the philosophy of John Stuart Mill. He gave the people liberty of personal rights, without religion. Expounded eloquently by Ayn Rand, it is regarded today as extreme.

It became unfashionable when the social philosophies of Rousseau, Marx and Bentham were promulgated. They invoked equality and attended to the welfare of communities. Today they underwrite communal approaches that solve climate change, prevent pandemics and supply cheap energy.

Nevertheless, most human endeavour strives to remain under individual control. Family, home, education, employment and recreation are pursued for individual interest, resisting the incursions of corporations and governments, whose intents are to exploit it, for their own benefit.

Turkeys Not Bees traces the lives and philosophical bearings of two young people whose journey together makes a stand for their own individual interests. The fiction story is exciting, exalting individual achievement, responding positively to forced engagement with collectivism.

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Posted in Personal rights, TURKEYS NOT BEES

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Tags: athletics, Collectivism, Flow, Guy Debord, Heidegger, Individualism, Nietzsche, Novel, philosophy of coaching, science, Simone De Beauvoir, Sport, Totalitarianism

MEDIA MAKE MONEY

Jun 15

Posted by martinknox

I disagree with Puttnam’s analysis: that it does.

Freedom of speech hurts some people but we already have laws of negligence, defamation and slander.

It is not possible to regulate media with reference to ‘facts’ or ‘truth’ because we are in a post-truth age where these have disappeared. All opinions must be considered now. This is better than the narrow moralities of the past e.g. condemnation of witchcraft and homosexuality.

Debating of binary issues is defunct because post-truth content is not binary. Debating is being replaced by politicking. The media aim is profit, within Debord’s spectacle, with a news churn having self-serving morality. Reform of the spectacle could be to reduce employee alienation, with job improvement by workers’ councils. Also by reducing consumer alienation, by limitation of product resource use, energy demand and packaging. Investment regulation could reduce media concentration and foster competition. Duty of Care censorship could consider harmful effects on minorities of advertising. The media industry can be made more responsible by cutting off the flow of money they lure.

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