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Category Archives: Australia
Mateship
In Australia, workers go to great lengths to save their coworkers from getting into trouble with bosses (particularly in manual labor jobs) and your average Aussie will also try to protect his fellows from getting a traffic ticket or any … Continue reading
Australia’s Liberal Party Has A New Leader
Angus Taylor assumed the leadership of the Liberal Party today after a party room vote ousting Sussan Ley. This transition marks a pivot for the Australian right from the moderate stance of Ley back toward a more assertive conservative framework. … Continue reading
The Nostradamus Kid
I love this 1992 movie about growing up Seventh-Day Adventist in Australia. I also love Alliance Theory! Let’s go. Alliance Theory treats belief systems as coalition tools, not moral philosophies. Political, religious, and existential claims function as strategic narratives that … Continue reading
The Gift Of Fear & Alliance
Grok: “The [following] X post narrates a real January 2026 incident where an Australian woman shared a video of a man staring at her on an empty Queensland beach, facing racism accusations that led her to delete it, as covered … Continue reading
Populist vs Elitist Moral Signalling
Animals signal. People signal. We all signal. Why? Because signalling is adaptive and virtue signalling is virtuous. ChatGPT says: Elite moral signaling is procedural and sanitizing. It produces roles, committees, standards, funding streams, and a public performance of care. It … Continue reading
Why Virtue Signalling Is Virtuous
Philosopher Neil Levy writes: * Animals use signals for a variety of purposes. For instance, gazelles famously signal their fitness by stotting (jumping up and down on the spot) in front of predators (FitzGibbon and Fanshawe 1988). Peacocks even more … Continue reading
Australia’s Elites Unite Against Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party
The Australian elite geometry is currently shifting toward the “European Model” of institutional containment to deal with the rising One Nation threat. The Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Act 2026 is the primary mechanism for this elite unification. The Unification … Continue reading
Decoding The ABC Four Corners Investigation Of The Bondi Terror Attack
Using my four favorite tools—Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural sociology, David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory and “Everything is Bullshit” framework, and Stephen Turner’s analysis of expertise—we can decode how the 2025 Bondi massacre serves as a catastrophic failure of institutional “sacred” rituals and … Continue reading
Why Americans love rhetoric about freedom and Australians love rhetoric about fairness
ChatGPT says: This difference drops out cleanly once you look at coalition structure, frontier history, and how each society manages internal conflict. Start with the United States. The core American problem was coordination among strangers. A huge, mobile, heterogeneous population … Continue reading