How do you flap yourself? What does it have to do with 'general semantics'? Read my latest Korzybski Files blogpost to find out.

http://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2009/04/korzybski-and-parable-of-flappers.html

Curious that on this date my mind turns to Korzybski. It was on this date 59 years ago that his life ended. For some reason I get around to remembering it every year.

I don’t hear much on this site and to be honest I’ve been busy too. When I retired I realized that I could answer the question: “What would you do if you could do anything you wanted to?” For the past year I’ve been thinking about an economy going pretty much where AK said it would: out of its mind. For some time before that I’ve… Continue

Google to reward those who do good

If you have an idea to make the world a better place, Google wants to hear about it, and - if it's deemed worthy - provide the money to
bring it to reality.

The $10 million project, introduced Wednesday, is a competition that will end with the Internet giant picking five winners. "These ideas can be big or small, technology-driven or brilliantly simple - but they need to have impact," Google said in a statement.

The criteria for picking the winners wi… Continue

On my Korzybski Files weblog I've got a new posting on a dramatic demonstration that Korzybski used in his seminars in the late 1940s. There's a neat video of a similar demo that I included. Jump to the link below to view it. http://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2008/07/chain-reaction-dramatic-demonstration.html

I remember very well the influence Harry Holtzman had on changing my fundamental “visual habits” of perception (GS, summer seminars, Millbrook, 1948, and Great Barrington, 1949). He would draw a simple “straight line” with charcoal on a blank white piece of artist’s sketching paper, and then asked us to describe what we saw.

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