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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedJo Braun Rosenfold, board member, program committee member and selfstyled "elder statesman" of the NY Society, has been an active and eager GSer for nearly ten years. And it all started by accident. She was...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedSatire involves holding up human vice or folly to ridicule, ideally with the hope of shaming individuals, organizations, and society into improved behavior. Its literary use dates back to the ancient Greeks who used...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThis double issue of ETC. puts the wraps on the fourth volume under my stewardship as an editor. Given that my first volume was a "greatest hits" retrospective in honor of ETC.'s 75th anniversary--not to mention an...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedDays after the events of September 11, 2001, the world wrestled with finding words for many aspects of our changed lives, including the events themselves. "September 11," "nine one one," and "the attacks" all circulated...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedWhitman, Walt. Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America, edited by Brenda Wineapple. New York: Library of America, 2019. This book is a 196-page concision of...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedAnton, Corey. How Non-Being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2021. "To be or not to be" is not the question this book seeks to answer...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-Reviewed"The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an unmitigated and unprecedented disaster on the global world. For the past 6 months, we have been witnessing the power and hold of the corona virus on mankind and our inability to do...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedZakaria, Fareed. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World. New York: Norton, 2020. Lenin said there are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen. In this book, Fareed Zakaria looks at that...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIn the spirit of the book Korzybski and... edited by Corey Anton and Lance Strate (in which various contributors explore Korzybski's relationship with different thinkers) let's look at Korzybski and... Warren Buffett....
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIn the article "The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking," Poponova states: "But the kit, Sagan argues, isn't merely a tool of science--rather, it contains invaluable tools...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedSchweizer, Bernard. Christianity and the Triumph of Humor: From Dante to David Javerbaum. New York: Routledge, 2020. The central thesis of this book is that in the conflict between official Christian forces opposed to...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedShariatmadari, David. Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language. New York: Norton, 2019. We all drive or ride in cars, yet few of us know what is going on under the hood. Same thing with language; we...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIn his book Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum (1976) argued that just because we can do something doesn't mean that we ought to do it. The word ought is one that we seldom hear nowadays, and perhaps this...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedWe were seated at a packed-full outdoor cafe in Bayeux, France, when I commented to my husband, Don: "It sounds like a symphony." We were surrounded by international languages, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-Reviewed"You will find a false theory less dangerous than an inadequate one. In the former, errors will turn up and require total correction, while insufficiencies will remain hard to locate in the latter."--Alfred Korzybski...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedWatson, Cecilia. Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark. New York: Ecco, 2019. The semicolon was invented by Aldus Manitius, a printer, publisher, and Italian humanist, in 1494. The humanists...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedBy fifth grade, I had reached the pinnacle of my popularity at home and at school. I was viewed by my family as the "special one," the one who could do no wrong. As the oldest of three, I asserted my dominance with...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedWhat constitutes life? How are living systems different from nonliving systems? These are fundamental questions that have occupied scholars of metaphysics, but also those in the physical and natural sciences, for several...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 77, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedMy mother was a skilled writer. She had taken quite a few creative writing workshops with the radio program producer and screenwriter Norman Corwin, who was a published author of several books and for many years taught...