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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Magic, our Father
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
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
Recreating Knatz.com (censored) / Teaching / Society / Social Epistemology / Homeostasis @K 1995 Homeostasis, The Mean That is: The Mean Gangs Up On the Extreme Introduction Core to pk’s teaching: Living systems automatically, consciousness immaterial, strive for balance. Consciousness … Continue reading
opiate entertainment
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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Mom
Recreating Knatz.com (censored) / Teaching / Society / Social Survival / Family / @ K. 2004 10 30 Mom, the Hero Mom, the Sacrifice Mothers Day on its way: Mission: to appreciate motherhood (Naturally, this is a beginning. I’ll do … Continue reading
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Velocity Differentials
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
pk, the Dancer
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?
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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