Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Incrimination

No judge censored me until 2007, but the culture has made sure nothing I say gets heard all my life. It was only at age sixty-nine that the silencing became official; till then it had merely been factual, manifest.

The illusionist holds a deck of trick cards and says to his audience, "This is deck of ordinary playing cards." Lying is just one thing that illusionists do. This kleptocracy which calls itself the United States says it has free speech. It's written into a amendment to the Constitution. Note: it's not found by objective alien scientists; it's claimed: by the lawyers, the illusionist.

Information in a kleptocracy must be controlled: so nothing incriminating the illusionist can reach the audience.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

DDD versus Klep

DDD has recently been coined for the purpose of being added to pk symbology. I added it via my deschooling blog, InfoAll. The deed has given me another self-appelled nickname, General DDD.

Kleptocracies amass power by regulating information. This deschooler not only founded the world's first offering of a low-cost digital library, a low-tech social networking internet, all in 1970, but seconded as well Ivan Illich's curse against kleptocratic regulaion. DDD abbreviates a series of "De"s. DeSchool is perhaps the most obvious: but only if you understand Illich's deschooling will you see the rest. "School" was the first in a series of "professions" that Illich attacked: as non-Christian, incompatible with conviviality. His worst trouble came when he attacked his fellow priests (he got defrocked, put in Coventry, stripped of financing). His most far reaching trouble came when he attacked the health industry. The priests hadn't take it lying down, neither had the school teachers, but it was the doctors who really aroused themselves to finance his erasure. I allied myself to Illich after he'd already been disposed of by the church: just in time to get myself eclipsed as well: by the teachers, the lawyers, the doctors, the nurses, the pharmers ... the media! all with the connivance of the public.

DDD: DeSchool! DeRegulate! DeProfessionalize. It might be best in this order: DeRegulate – DeProfessionalize — DeSchool.

The General in General DDD is also significant: I echo Bucky Fuller's plea for generalists to repair damage done by over-specialization! (I also refer to General Sutter, the developer of California whose gold as well as land and livestock we stole in 1849. He promoted himself to Colonel, then General: I think that's a riot, especially since deschooling requires that I not so much as admit to a BA let alone an MA let alone a Ph.D.!) (I carry the reverse snobbism of Dr. Sagan's fellow doctors calling each other "Mister" to a new level.) (Carl Sagan addressed me as Doctor Knatz. So did Rollo May! I love it. They took correction from me!)

Back in the 1960s, Monseigneur Ivan Illich, a Roman Catholic priest, the most famous in the world apart from the Pope, said that if the Roman Catholic Church wished to become Christian, it would have to
  1. Give up its property
  2. Deprofessionalize its priesthood.
Illich pointed out that mass should be said by members of the congregation: the butcher, the baker ... not by someone paid to do so. (In my words: Property is incompatible with the imitation of Christ, so is making a living from it. St. Paul was a tent maker, Peter was a fisherman, Jesus was a carpenter ... Mary was the professional: she subsidized Jesus and Peter.) Illich applied the same liberalism to all professions. Parents and neighbors and skilled amateurs should teach children. If professionals are hired as teachers they should be hired via a free market place, not politically imposed, and paid by state controlled theft of public funds. Skilled butchers and bakers might kill fewer patients if they did our health care. I cure headaches, untwist backs: I've never charged a penny, neither have I killed anyone with my treatments: why pay $30,000 to a hospital that kills people every day? So they can cut off your left leg when you asked for your right breast to be X-rayed? The more expensive the treatment, the more lethal it's likely to become.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Tow Away Zone

Monotheism imagines many devils, myriad humans, multitudes of creatures for one God. I imagine a bell curve with similar numbers of devils at one end of the spectrum and similar numbers of gods at the other with zillions of ordinaries in between.

There is always a multitude of teachers ready to oppose a Galileo, just as there are many rabbis to sabotage a Jesus, and many more theological morons to back the rabbis. There are always many more priests than saints, more teachers than geniuses, more morons than teachers: though total morons, genuine basket cases will be as sparse as the true geniuses. Still: homeostasis prevails, if nature wanted humans to be smart, nature would have to smarted up the average human, not just the occasional Jesus, Bucky, pk ...

I've said all that a zillion times before, have been saying it since the 1960s at least. Today I want to add a different textured foundation stone to the structure. Half a century ago I saw a New Yorker cartoon that tickled me: cars were lined up behind a car being towed away to take the illegal double parking space as soon as the racketeering cops removed the incumbent illegal.

So, pk, what's your metaphor? What does that, gettable only by a New Yorker a mere few decades ago, have to do with homeostasis? Well, there isn't much that doesn't have to do with homeostasis, if only we would see it: the sighted can teach and teach and the blind still won't even know that teaching is being attempted: the blind have their own teachers to prevent learning!) The answer also answers why I place this post at pkKlep. We're thieves, we live on stolen land, thinking stolen ideas, believing stolen faiths.

My son says nothing can be done about it, decades after he's joined the mob in refusing to consider proposals that might have done something about it: his father's proposals, for example. So: here I am: a disciple of Ivan Illich. I wanted the schooled to give up their (perceived) privileges, so all might ascend to liberty. No, no: the schooled want their own perceived liberty, while the markets' victims continue as slaves. Put even more metaphorically, I want to give the land back to the Indians: then we might be able to begin to own land in justice, under law. Thieves making up laws, then remaking them, don't count. I wanted to take Jesus down off the cross, to end his suffering: then we might possibly find a path by which we could try to become Christian. I want to end coercive schooling, then we might find our own intelligence, our own path to learning, and survival.

But the thieves knock me down, put me on my own cross, shrieking their lies all the more hysterically: while the Third World waits in line to immigrate, to take their own place on the stolen land, repeating by rote the stolen lies, feverishly repeating false faiths: kleptocrats are so sincere in their false posturings.