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Hi. Paul Knatz here, also known as pk.

I am a writer. I am a deschooler. With Ivan Illich dead, I am the deschooler. Deschooling opposes coercion, particularly state coercion.

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I’m the Shakespeare scholar who was fired from his college teaching post in violation of a contract. Eleven of twenty-one department members were purged in that war year: 1969. I’d already been dreaming of modemed digital information available via satellite coordination. When Ivan Illich proposed cybernetic social networking to replace the school system, I became his deschooling colleague: he became trustee to my Free Learning Exchange, Inc., 1970: the world’s first (the best I can tell) prototype internet. FLEX could have replaced not only schools, but universities, media, the managed marketplace: and the government! Real democracy is not possible without unfettered, deregulated information.

Society has made sure that this pacifist has starved ever since. Indeed, the fed has jailed and censored me: violated the Constitution (and Christianity) to (mis-)label me a felon! (Of course the kleptocracy’s self-reification system makes it “true”: by convicting me, torturing me into confession, I become a felon: by their definitions.)

With public support we could have freed ourselves, maybe learned to survive. Without public support, without private sponsorship, it’s all just another unrealized idea. Heaven, like hell, like earth, is mostly unrealized ideas: beauty unborn, a Christ that never happened; but tried to.

EMail pk:

pk@Knatz.com

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I posted this page before experience began to show me how I would use these pages. The pages “should” be menus; prose should go in the posts. I’ll fix it, in time, if I live. For the moment I regard it as most important to rescue as many pk modules as possible from fed censorship.

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pk here. I’m the man who believes what I believed as a boy: that the state had no right put me – or anyone else – in school.

I’m the writer who believes that it’s past time to take Jesus down off the cross, to stop torturing him, to stop perverting god, the truth, the nature of reality. Given sixty-odd years to try, publishers have never published any of it.

I’m the scholar who reads Shakespeare’s sonnets by mapping the Fair Love / Dark Lady onto the epistemological impasse between the Scholastic Realism of the Middle Ages and the heretical nominalism which gave birth to science (and modern individualism). The universities don’t have a clue, interrupt me the way the public school did.

I’m the thinker who explains the universe in terms of information, complex information, processed, interpreted, multi-dimensional information, in terms of macroinformation.

I’m the reformer who offered digital librarianship, cybernetic data-basing / social networking / quality-control feedback, an anarchist internet of voluntary-only information: forty-one years ago. Corporations, the government … waited: then stole it.

Sick of kleptocracy, of thieves in charge, I wrote a satire: and to jail I went: censored, my thousands of essays stripped from the kleptocracy’s plagiarized internet. How did the government come to be in charge of what CERN, the Pentagon, and MIT had stolen from god, from Christ, from Ivan Illich, from me? And from you!

about pk menu (just beginning):
pk, self
Immune to Beauty

pk Quotes
Quotes About pk
pk Nicknames

A lot of pk material had been getting remounted at PaulKnatz blog. Now everything is coming here.

The above picture, with the Hi label, was taken in 2008, at a dance. Here’s how Jan dressed us for St. Patrick’s day dance this 2012.

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