"Becoming More Fully Human"

Recently a number of people have become interested in previous works by me and my wife Susan, including the book Dare to Inquire: Sanity and Survival for the 21st Century and Beyond.

Here's a nice fat slice of that book, Chapter 4 - "Becoming More Fully Human," where I elaborated on Susan's formulating about some korzybskian notions, humanist 'philosophy', and the work of Abraham Maslow, among other things.  

Some of you may find it controversial.

"Becoming More Fully Human" 

"What 'is' General Semantics?"

Interviewer Luke Ford asked me "What 'is' General Semantics?" Here's a piece of that.
"What 'is' General Semantics?"

Quote of the Day- 'The Sneer of the Future'

"The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been."
——Cassius J. Keyser (Mole Philosophy and Other Essays, p. 152)

From The Stray Thought Bin – 'What Are You Doing Here?'

If you don't consider yourself a life-long learner, what are you doing here? 

Quote of the Day- 'Creating Worlds'

"Languages create worlds to live in, not just in the minds of their speakers, but in their lives, and their descendents lives."
—Nicholas Ostler, 
 Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin, p. 20

From the Stray Thought Bin – 'The Pressing Question'

Whatever and whenever you know and do, you abstract and all you can know are your abstractions. What's ultimately important is not so much a high-level intellectual understanding of this, but rather its low-level, moment-to-moment living recognition and use. How do I practice consciousness of abstractions and conscious abstracting in my daily life? That seems to me the pressing question. And not just personally for me . 

From the Stray Thought Bin – 'The Best of All Possible Worlds'

Voltaire's blindness—he thought Leibniz was an optimist.

From the Stray Thought Bin – 'Do The Math'

Do the math—even if you get the wrong answer. 

Ralph C. Hamilton — His Memory is a Blessing

Ralph C. Hamilton, a personal assistant of Alfred Korzybski's in the late 1940s, died yesterday, in his 90s after a brief period of failing health. You'll read about Ralph and some of what he had to say about his friend Alfred in Korzybski: A Biography. Ralph gave me a tremendous amount of time and help; we became friends and I'll miss him. I had just sent Ralph a bound galley proof of the book and his son, Bruce, told me that he was able to tell his father that it was out, and the he (Ralph) had a prominent place in it. Ralph smilingly replied, 'That will ensure my notoriety.'