Wed, 30 May 2007

Korzybski in a nutshell:

Via some aspect of the communications MEDIA, a web page in this instance, I attempt to transmit the image to you.

If I transmitted it correctly, and you got it correctly, TRUTH happened.

Example: I know how to get from here to there. I draw you a map. You get there. Ya, true map!

Popular admonition: The map is NOT the territory.

Further reading here

(That was an essential part of Dicky's early education, and took an entire college course to get across. These days, it is clear that almost nobody can guess what it is about. Truth nowadays is what you achieve when you give your heart to Jesus, or blow up some infidels.)

(By now, the literature of General Semantics has gotten very intricate, voluminous, and mysterious. Possibly General Semantics is on the way to becoming a religion, like Dianetics did.)

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