je pense qu'il y a dans Korzybski des elements qui se retrouvent dans ST,
etb singulierement dans la philosophie vulcaine
paul
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----- Original Message -----
From: "George Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [vanvogt] Korzybski
>
> >Well, you knew,George. I have never heard of Korzybski, nor the General
> >Semantics craze. What year(s) was that? I think my grade 7 English
> >teacher
> >must have been a strong advocate of any semantics movement.
> >
> >Deb
> >
>
> Here's something I copied over from the old yahoo messages, the answer
being
> in the second paragraph:
>
> Donald Wollheim, "The Universe Makers: Science Fiction Today", Harper and
> Row, New York, 1971 --
>
> When I think of stories that have to do with challenging God or becoming
God
> or having a hero of godlike powers I have to think of A. E. Van Vogt. For
> one of Van Vogt's abiding characteristics is to make his heroes so
> invulnerable, so omniscient, so gifted with superhuman powers as to
> encourage the suspicion that his heroes are all really God in disguise.
>
> Van Vogt is a universe maker by instinct. From the first his stories have
> concerned themselves with extraordinary powers, with new concepts in
science
> or in mental gymnastics, and he constantly seems to strive to create new
> systems of thought and mental order which will permit the creation of
> supermen. It is not an accident that his first fame-making novel was "The
> World of Null-A", which presumed to be an exposition of the General
> Semantics of Alfred Korzybski, a philosophy of semantics which was thought
> to be the key to truly scientific and accurate communication between men.
It
> was a Depression gimmick idea, one of the many that sprouted in those
> unhappy, desperate times. Its premise was that if we could only understand
> each other perfectly we could end wars, miseries, and so on. Everything
that
> was bad about society was due to lack of perfect comprehension of each
> other's words and writings. The theory of General Semantics postulated a
new
> form of mind training designed to eliminate emotional coloration from all
> communications and thinking.
>
> Actually it was never clear just what "The World of Null-A" had to do with
> the real General Semantics, save for the use of interesting quotations
> before each chapter. Van Vogt's hero turned out to be rather similar to
God.
> Gifted by powers of clear thinking and identical mental conceptions with
> others trained in the mental techniques, he was virtually uncatchable. In
> fact he could not be truly killed. Trapped, cornered, slain, he turned up
> instantly elsewhere safe and whole again! General Semantics, according to
> Van Vogt, supplied this godlike re-creating. (pages 45-46)
>
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