ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles

Recent articles from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics

From the editor.
October 1, 2008... WITH THIS ISSUE, THE EDITORSHIP changes hands with grateful acknowledgment to the editors who have come before. It seems to us that our mission is as important as ever as we do what we can to address the problems of the semantic environment. For those of us in the U.S., this issue comes on...

Errata.(Correction notice)
October 1, 2008... Through no fault of his own, there were some errors in Ben Hauck's essay "Developing the Experience of Group Mind" in the last issue. A number of quotation marks were omitted. Many of the omissions do not make for confusing reading, but one omission rendered one sentence nonsensical. A...

Exercises in mental cartography: making new maps.
October 1, 2008... IN 1698, an Italian named Bartolomeo Cristofori built the world's first piano. This happened more than two millennia after Pythagoras invented Western music by discovering that the relationships between musical notes could be expressed as numerical ratios. Cristofori designed his pianoforte...

The walk of shame: a normative description.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... ON A GIVEN SUNDAY MORNING IN CITIES ACROSS AMERICA, women and men will perform the "walk of shame." Although both sexes exhibit the behavior, the women seem particularly stigmatized and obvious. Look for her--she is the one who is still wearing the micro-mini skirt, the backless shirt, and...

Become an active time-binder. Learn.. ..from the experience ... and mistakes ... of your ancestors.(Vasa)
October 1, 2008... TIME BINDING: THAT SINKING FEELING K-12-COMMUNICATION.COM IN 1625, Sweden's king, Gustavus Adolphus, decided that his country needed a strong navy if Sweden was to be considered a major world power. He ordered construction of a number of fighting ships, including a massive super...