Bruce I. Kodish's Blog (5)

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 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 Continue

They came out of the Texas inspired by Korzybski and L.S.D—one of the first of the psychedelic rock bands of the 1960s. They had a singer Roky Erickson, who had the vocal range of a Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger rolled-into-one. Tommy Hall, who—inspired by his study of Nietzsche, Gurdjieff, Korzybski, and others—wrote many of the lyrics, played an amplified jug (that strange rhythmical 'tooka-tooka-tooka' sound you can hear in the background). Here's a quote from the liner notes—th… Continue

Will Shakespeare's friend, Ben Jonson, knew a few things about human evaluating. Here's a quote from his essay ,"Discoveries Made on Man and Matter: "If in some things I dissent from others, whose wit, industry, diligence, and judgement, I look up at and admire, let me not therefore hear presently of ingratitude and rashness. For I thank those that have taught me, and ever will; but yet dare not think the scope of their labour and inquiry was to envy their posterity what they also could add and… Continue