I heartily recommend Language in Thought and Action to anyone who wants keep their minds nimble and alert. It is a terrific gift for students from 9th grade onwards, all the way to graduate school and beyond; it is just as useful for someone who wishes to be an effective instructor in any setting in any capacity.
And, this same book is likely to be helpful if you are recovering from Landmark Education, est, The Forum, Lifespring, Siddha or SYDA yoga or any other workshop, job training, retreat or "spiritual" event that leaves you feeling that something does not feel right.
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Language in Thought and Action here:
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Read the book and you will get a blazing good tutorial on how to think **about** language. You will also get an in depth look at how language can and has been used against us-- and how to keep this from being done to you.
You may also be able to recognize some of Werner Erhard's tricks.
In Language in Action, Hayakawa gave an influentiual and publicly accessible description of General Semantics, a theory created by Korcyzbski.
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K's work has had an influence on those who developed neurolinguistic programming.
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Clumsy citizen hunch by Corboy
Listen to the jargon used by Werner Erhard's disciples. Read their motivational
writings. Then remember that you are not inside the physical and social context
designed and controlled by Erhardian crowd managers.
It is not just the verbal context of Erhardianism that packs the punch; Erhard understood that the importance of creating a specialized social and physical context.
This Erhardian context, which many other LGATs have appropriated, does not
at first glance, look unusual.
It does not excite alarm.
It looks like an ordinary auditorium or seminar.
What is concealed is a physical arrangement that is a necessary ingredient
for Erhardian indoctrination.
A special context -- the context -- the context that is needed for
changing subjects' language in thought and subjects' language in action to
Erhardian thought and Erhardian action.
And, this same book is likely to be helpful if you are recovering from Landmark Education, est, The Forum, Lifespring, Siddha or SYDA yoga or any other workshop, job training, retreat or "spiritual" event that leaves you feeling that something does not feel right.
To whet your appetite, Wiki Quotes has some selections from
Language in Thought and Action here:
[en.wikiquote.org]
Read the book and you will get a blazing good tutorial on how to think **about** language. You will also get an in depth look at how language can and has been used against us-- and how to keep this from being done to you.
You may also be able to recognize some of Werner Erhard's tricks.
In Language in Action, Hayakawa gave an influentiual and publicly accessible description of General Semantics, a theory created by Korcyzbski.
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Korcybski argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality. His best known dictum is "The map is not the territory".
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K's work has had an influence on those who developed neurolinguistic programming.
[www.google.com]
Clumsy citizen hunch by Corboy
Listen to the jargon used by Werner Erhard's disciples. Read their motivational
writings. Then remember that you are not inside the physical and social context
designed and controlled by Erhardian crowd managers.
It is not just the verbal context of Erhardianism that packs the punch; Erhard understood that the importance of creating a specialized social and physical context.
This Erhardian context, which many other LGATs have appropriated, does not
at first glance, look unusual.
It does not excite alarm.
It looks like an ordinary auditorium or seminar.
What is concealed is a physical arrangement that is a necessary ingredient
for Erhardian indoctrination.
A special context -- the context -- the context that is needed for
changing subjects' language in thought and subjects' language in action to
Erhardian thought and Erhardian action.