Monthly Archives: April 2011

Magic, our Father

Posted on 2011/04/28 by

Magic: the Origin of both Politics & Religion 1998 06 06 Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough presents that great anthropologist’s history of magic. That history includes the history of religion. By a small extrapolation, it is also a history … Continue reading →

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Homeostasis Scrapbook

Posted on 2011/04/28 by

Recreating Knatz.com (censored) / Teaching / Society / Social Epistemology / Homeostasis Homeostasis: a complex set of natural laws by which the average protects the average. 2011 07 26 If you’ve got a good genotype in a stable suitable environment, … Continue reading →

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Homeostasis

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Recreating Knatz.com (censored) / Teaching / Society / Social Epistemology / Homeostasis Homeostasis The Mean That is: The Mean Gangs Up On the Extreme 1995 Core to pk’s teaching: Living systems automatically, consciousness immaterial, strive for balance. Consciousness is as … Continue reading →

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opiate entertainment

Posted on 2011/04/27 by

Entertainment: Our Opiate Marx famously said that “religion is the opiate of the people.” I can’t imagine even a pope failing to agree with that: at least in part. Religion is a complex set of things: I myself have used … Continue reading →

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Flag Day

Posted on 2011/04/27 by

Conflict seems to be a constant in the world, certainly in human society, certainly in politics: politics being groups maneuvering to control the musical chairs game of grab the scarce resources, don’t share except with this or that nefariously cooperating … Continue reading →

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Mom

Posted on 2011/04/26 by

Recreating Knatz.com (censored) / Teaching / Society / Social Survival / Family / Mom Mom, the Hero Mom, the Sacrifice Mission: to appreciate motherhood Mothers Day on its way, I select this one: from 2004 10 30 Everyone has heard … Continue reading →

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Skull Tax

Posted on 2011/04/25 by

In 1974 I was running the Circle Gallery on Madison Avenue, a few doors up from the Whitney Museum, a few doors down and across the street from Southby’s Parke Bernet. Somebody from TV land asked me to provide an … Continue reading →

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Velocity Differentials

Posted on 2011/04/23 by

Ready … Set … Bang! Standing at the finish line for the one hundred yard dash we saw the runners adjust their feet to the starting blocks, lean forward, their shoulders over the starting line, their feet and hands still … Continue reading →

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pk, the Dancer

Posted on 2011/04/22 by

South Side High School, Class of ’56, named me Best Dancer. Age sixty-nine, deciding it was time I met some women, I began attending the Highlands Senior Social. I hadn’t danced in more than half a century but I somehow … Continue reading →

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Who (Or What) Is pk?

Posted on 2011/04/22 by

first drafted at Knatz.com in 2001 My living intellectual hero billy mac There’s no “thing” without a setting, no individual without a culture. I can’t say what “I” am without first saying what “we” are. We are kleptocrats. If you’re … Continue reading →

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