Category Archives: social survival

Pacific Segregation

Culture / Several pieces at K. over the decades have dealt with segregation by gender as well as by race, while themes of segregation by economics are ubiquitous in and out of K. Yesterday I found myself telling Jan about … Continue reading

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Symbolic Lies, $1

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / Survival / Social Semantics / There was an article the other day on CEO’s earning $1 a year. I laughed my head off as a late … Continue reading

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Addiction Scrapbook

Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / Social Survival / Addiction / @ K. 1998 07 19 is a natural drunk who’s come with difficulty to love sobriety. 2011 12 13 My girl … Continue reading

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Planned Parenthood

Designing Life: Should Babies Be Genetically Engineered? Experts debated on Wednesday evening (Feb. 13) whether prenatal engineering should be banned in the United States. Humans have already genetically modified animals and crops, said Sheldon Krimsky, a philosopher at Tufts University, … Continue reading

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Warming Without Warning

Civilization clips its own whiskers: a type of self-imposed lobotomy. I was a young adult before I ever heard an explanation for whiskers on animals: cats for instance. The cat’s whiskers, or the rat’s, are as wide as the cat’s … Continue reading

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County Care

Highlands County’s dental health care service gave me an appointment to have my denture refitted last Friday, December 14, 1 PM. This is years after my regular dentist betrayed me for what I was determined would be the last time. … Continue reading

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Social Evolution

Individuals have vaying and limiting abilities with intelligence, honesty … science: map testing, map improvement. Societies have vaying and limiting abilities with intelligence, honesty … science: map testing, map improvement. The average society will be tectonically stagnant compared to the … Continue reading

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Mmm Mmm Good!

Praise for Campbell’s new line of microwave soups in a bag: Coconut Curry! for example. Mmm mmm good! Mmm mmm good! That’s what Campbell’s soups are. Mmm mmm good! That was the jingle on the radio when I was a … Continue reading

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Running the Rapture

Sleep Writing Running the Rapture on Solaris I just awoke, sleep writing, two and a half hours into my sleep, so delicious, tantalizing, holding sand in my hands, sifting away, have to try to hold some of it. The Rapture … Continue reading

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Robo-Butler

All my life I loved Charlie Chaplin. Growing up I knew he lived in a castle on the lake in Switzerland. I knew he could play at the Riviera every day if he wanted to, I knew people who’d seen … Continue reading

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