ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from March 1998

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from March 1998

Cry of the cat: plus critical thinking and precise communication. (fiction) (excerpt from Lyman Houfek's book 'Cry of the Cat')
March 22, 1998... CHAPTER 1 Sonny Shaw sat alone on a large craggy rock about to bite into an apple. He was staring intently into the distance, at a dark structure on top of a steep hill. Between Sonny's rock and the hill lay a vast marshy swampland filled with...

Science and sanity into the nineties and beyond: the new edition.
March 22, 1998... The Institute of General Semantics has issued the fifth edition of Science and Sanity, Alfred Korzybski's second book. Originally published in 1933, the book describes Korzybski's theory of sanity, and defines and delineates the general semantics...

Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics, 5th ed.
March 22, 1998... The Institute of General Semantics has issued the fifth edition of Science and Sanity, Alfred Korzybski's second book. Originally published in 1933, the book describes Korzybski's theory of sanity, and defines and delineates the general semantics...

Emptying your cup: non-verbal awareness and general semantics.
March 22, 1998... Wishing to talk about Zen philosophy, a professor visited a Zen master. As they sat together the Zen master poured tea. He kept on pouting as the tea overflowed onto the floor. "Stop!" said the professor, "you have filled the cup, no more will go...

General semantics and memetics: a tentative relationship?
March 22, 1998... Those of you who, like me, have followed what we consider the "precepts" of General Semantics for many years and who feel a debt of gratitude to Alfred Korzybski for his contribution to our "state of sanity," may obtain additional satisfaction...

Allness and public policy. (defining the 'public')
March 22, 1998... A recent newspaper article (Longworth, 1997) reported on national polls designed to discover views on national issues. Pollsters focused on samples of U.S. citizens, national elected officials and their staff members, journalists, and other...

Resolving an anomaly. (general semantics)
March 22, 1998... When I call something anomalous, I usually mean that it does not agree with what we would consider as consistent or regular. I, at least, feel that I should figure out why it doesn't conform to my model of fitness and what it is that caused it to...

Using general semantics.
March 22, 1998... General Semantics can be considered a neuro-semantic, neuro-linguistic discipline. Therefore, I have found that learning the definitions and descriptions of the formulations presented in Science and Sanity, staff lectures, workshops, and other...

Shifting base. (semantics in research)
March 22, 1998... A front-page article in today's morning paper boldly proclaims that "Sex twice a week appears to lower men's death risk" and then warns of the dangers of trusting statistics that might have a shifting base. (1) The study in question involved...

The Non-Aristotelian Clone.(The Clone Chronicles, Chapter 3)
March 22, 1998... Today, many historians say the clone controversy began long ago on planet Earth when scientists cloned a sheep named "Lambchop." Evidence cited includes laws to prevent human cloning passed in 1999 by the congress of the then USA. These laws,...

Languages. (poem)
March 22, 1998... There are no handles upon a language Whereby men take hold of it And mark it with signs for its remembrance. It is a river, this language, Once in a thousand years Breaking a new course Changing its way to the ocean. It is mountain effluvia...

The technological race as metaphor.
March 22, 1998... The news media loves a race. A race is exciting. You can measure who's ahead and who's behind; you can make predictions; you can bet on the results. But most of all, a race is simple. There is a clear-cut criterion for winning; there is an...

Teaching psychology according to a quantum physics paradigm: a summary.
March 22, 1998... This paper was presented at the "New Maps For New Territories" colloquium following the Korzybski Memorial Lecture, November 1997. Robert Anton Wilson presented the lecture which focused on quantum psychology. The colloquium participants...

A general semantics. (part 21)
March 22, 1998... I.F.D. disease; Korzybski's Happiness Formula. The most widely known version of the 'I.F.D.' disease is probably that of Wendell Johnson presented in his excellent People in Quandaries. After Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action, Johnson's...

Stuart A. Mayper (1916-1997). (general semantics scholar)(Obituary)
March 22, 1998... The discipline of general-semantics has suffered a grievous loss, as has the multitude of friends and colleagues of Stuart Mayper. Stuart died on November 25, 1997, succumbing to cancer of the bladder, kidney failure, and other organ tissue...

Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration.
March 22, 1998... Warren Bennis, a professor and founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at USC, and Patricia Biederman, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, have co-authored this book whose motto is "None of us is as smart as all of us." That conclusion is...

Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber.
March 22, 1998... The mailbomb that almost killed David Gelernter in June of 1993, courtesy of the Unabomber, left him with physical injuries and a sense of moral outrage and obligation which he shares with us in this book. That many in the news media and the...

Moral Judgement: Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System?
March 22, 1998... James Q. Wilson, a professor of management and public policy at UCLA, begins his book with this premise: If a sense of right and wrong is innate to every sane human being, how can we clog our court systems with cases that turn on mitigating and...

Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past.
March 22, 1998... "Time-binding" is a general-semantics formulation that indicates the unique ability of human beings to use language and other symbols to transmit information across time. It allows each generation to profit from the experiences of prior...

The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them.
March 22, 1998... American K-12 education is among the least effective in the developed world. E.D. Hirsch, Jr., a professor at the University of Virginia who previously authored the best seller Cultural Literacy, says this is because for over fifty years our...

Stop Hurtful Words and Harmful Habits.
March 22, 1998... Kenneth L. Baldwin, a therapist and the originator of Life Therapy and Bio-Semantics Training, has written an informative, entertaining and practical self-help book for those who want a "happier" life. Baldwin makes use of general semantics...