Articles

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2025 Submission on the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill. This is a very hurried submission because the National-led Coalition allowed the citizens of Aotearoa a very restricted period to prepare a submission.It is also a very personalized submission to counter the Government’s accusation that submissions weremass-produced. It is possible The Crown’s weaponization of…

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2025

Submission on the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill.

3D Mobius Loop cartoon of the Human Psyche amidst all. Information and energy being inextricably of each other, matter (the stuff or materialization and manifestation of the universal potential) is seen to be inextricably of them. Any form informs all even as it is informed by all. Hence we are our language and it sustains us to the degree it is in accord with the principles of physics. Cartoon inspired by the Essentia Foundation interview with Dr. Anita Goel (September 2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HkQ-AUJ29U

This is a very hurried submission because the National-led Coalition allowed the citizens of Aotearoa a very restricted period to prepare a submission.
It is also a very personalized submission to counter the Government’s accusation that submissions were
mass-produced.
It is possible The Crown’s weaponization of language informed the creation of this website and the above cartoon because it illustrates why we are our language and how it is subject to the principles of physics, This insight enables us to better appreciate all indigenous languages and to transcend our ego-driven division and arrogance

2024

14 July 2024

Formal Complaint BSA – McArthur v RNZ

The Crown Broadcasting Standards Authority (NZ BSA) is responsible for determining the standards of corporate media broadcasting in New Zealand.
This article contains all the correspondence surrounding my complaint that RNZ’s conflation of “energy”, “power” and “electricity” is in fatal denial of the principles of physics and thus is profoundly unsustainable.
The BSA in its decision reaffirmed that such conflation is acceptible and scientific.
Note: The prime objective of the complaint – repeatedly spelled out to the Crown lawyers acting for the BSA – was to elicit its clear definition of the Conservation of Energy Principle so as to promote a high standard of scientific discourse. The lawyers went to extraordinary lengths for avoid providing the BSA definition, indicating the Crown entity is corrupt to the core.

2024
ChatGPT at Our Peril

Information is physical and thus our use of language is subject to the principles of physics. We ignore their great truths at our peril. The essay illustrates how we can use that wisdom to evaluate the sustainability of our use of language.
In particular, it details an evaluation of ChatGPT, which is based on The Crown dialect of English, the dominant language of our contemporary Anglo culture. This dialect arose with the English Combustion Revolution and the associated belief that Earth’s atmosphere works like a greenhouse.
The conclusion is that ChatGPT, like all similar AI, puts us at grave peril.

10 Feb 2024

Reflections on Treasuring the Transcendent Power of Words

How wonder and beauty can reside on the tip of our tongue when we give care
to conserving and using words and phrases that enable us to transcend paradox.

2022-2023

Note re The series of “What is…. ?! essays

Originally the thirteen What is….?!” series of essays were stored at https://medium.com/@davemcarthur
Each essay discusses the unique universe (s) that we can experience in a word or phrase. However the essays are all linked by a common psychology~physics and use of etymology. All discuss and employ the principles of energy as their prime means of evaluating how sustainable the meaning of the word or phrase has been over millennia i.e. what sort of universe the word or phrase use generates.
Please note that the essays are also stored on this website – see the “What is …?” links in theSu menu.

2021

16 October 2021
Blah Blah Blah v Civics COP26

28th September 2021. Greta Thunberg, a young citizen of Sweden, delivers a speech during the opening plenary session of the Youth4Climate summit in Milan, Italy. She describes commonly used English words and expressions of “Climate Care” as “blah, blah, blah” i.e. as deceitful, delusional and morally bankrupt.
Greta’s “blah, blah, blah” speech reverberates around planet Earth and resonates in profound ways in many people. Deep in our guts we knows the truth she speaks. In my instance, it supports my growing belief this past two decades that the prevalence of “Energy Gobbledy-gook” is a recipe for dystopia, an existential threat to Mankind’s existence.

2020

The Civics of the Covid 19 Pandemic
(The wider geopolitical context to the Crown New Zealand “Lockdown”)

2018

Global Anglosphere Dialect of English IMPACT
(Reflections on The Guardian and Nautilus Articles )

Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet
No language in history has dominated the world quite like English does today.
Is there any point in resisting?
By Jacob Mikanowskit Guardian.com
Quote from The Guardian article

My article illustrates how The Crown notion of “energy” is fatally flawed according to the principles of physics and forms a global force that could well destroy Mankind. The Crown dialect of English, a radical aberration in the history of the English reflecting~generating the English Combustion Revolution, is now the international language of business. This said, it is only one of many possible dialects of English.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/27/english-language-global-dominance

http://nautil.us/blog/does-english-fulfill-the-dream-of-a-universal-language