“War itself is, of course, a form of madness. It’s hardly a civilized pursuit. It’s amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve peace.”
– Walter Cronkite
– Walter Cronkite
June 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
#TimeBinding #GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity #AlfredKorzybski
#SharedFacts #HealthScience #VaccinesWork
#SharedFacts #HealthScience #VaccinesWork
February 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Chief Justice John Roberts sounds delusional.
Not insane or hallucinating. But so out of touch, so high on his own supply, so deep in a bubble that he—according to this NYT report—thought that his terribly reasoned, wildly un-American immunity ruling would be well received by the public and history.
Not insane or hallucinating. But so out of touch, so high on his own supply, so deep in a bubble that he—according to this NYT report—thought that his terribly reasoned, wildly un-American immunity ruling would be well received by the public and history.
September 15, 2024 at 3:40 PM
He drew from #ScienceAndSanity #GeneralSemantics
One of the most important books in my education was the #Semantics textbook “Language in Thought and Action” by S. I. Hayakawa mid ‘60s.
January 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
He drew from #ScienceAndSanity #GeneralSemantics
#Semantics #EmotionLogic #Perception #BrainFunction #HumanReasoning #CollectiveBehavior
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity #CommunityProsperity
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity #CommunityProsperity
The belief that “natural” is better than “synthetic” is false—it’s the appeal to nature fallacy.
Some of the most toxic substances come from nature.
Botulinum toxin. Ricin. Abrin. Cyanide. Arsenic.
Your body doesn’t know—or care—whether a chemical is natural or synthetic.
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Some of the most toxic substances come from nature.
Botulinum toxin. Ricin. Abrin. Cyanide. Arsenic.
Your body doesn’t know—or care—whether a chemical is natural or synthetic.
1/
March 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
An essay in Nature discusses how it’s an astonishing achievement that all of statistics and much of science depends on probability considering no one’s sure what it is. 🧪
Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.
go.nature.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:24 AM
#Peopleism #Familyism #Healthism #Neighborhoodism #Communityism #Educationism #Kindism #Learningism
#HealthyWordism
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity
#HealthyWordism
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity
There’s definitely a lesson to be learned here. Just like they may not grasp the existential ideas of fascism & authoritarianism, they also may not be saddled with how effective an attack the word “socialism” is. Socialist concepts are popular (see Bernie). Lean more into the ideas themselves.
The Democrats Are Losing the Social Media Wars. This Young Socialist Is Changing That.
Zohran Mamdani may not win his election, but he could offer a strategy to the left.
www.politico.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
#SemanticManipulation #LiesFearHate
#LiesAreViruses #EducationIsTheVaccine
#Semantics #Perception #BrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity #WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
#LiesAreViruses #EducationIsTheVaccine
#Semantics #Perception #BrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity #WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Math is just one language we use. It's an incredibly formal one, and that formality allows us to use it to uncover some of the deepest truths of the universe.
Human language is loosely formal, but the it serves the same purpose to represent the human condition, which is inherently thought-bound.
Human language is loosely formal, but the it serves the same purpose to represent the human condition, which is inherently thought-bound.
May 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"We rioted terribly among words and names, our own miserable creatures, and accorded divine potency to them." #CarlJung
#SharedFacts versus #FakeWorlds
#Semantics #BrainFunction #HumanReasoning
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity
#SharedFacts versus #FakeWorlds
#Semantics #BrainFunction #HumanReasoning
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity
March 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"We rioted terribly among words and names, our own miserable creatures, and accorded divine potency to them." #CarlJung
#SharedFacts versus #FakeWorlds
#Semantics #BrainFunction #HumanReasoning
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity
#SharedFacts versus #FakeWorlds
#Semantics #BrainFunction #HumanReasoning
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity
"The map is not the territory." - #ScienceAndSanity #Korzybski: words are map-tools for understanding; science develops accurate maps and continually corrects and improves them #GeneralSemantics
September 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"The map is not the territory." - #ScienceAndSanity #Korzybski: words are map-tools for understanding; science develops accurate maps and continually corrects and improves them #GeneralSemantics
"The map is not the territory." - #ScienceAndSanity #Korzybski
#GeneralSemantics: #words are map-tools for understanding; science develops more accurate maps ... #SharedFacts and continually corrects and improves ...
#GeneralSemantics: #words are map-tools for understanding; science develops more accurate maps ... #SharedFacts and continually corrects and improves ...
March 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"The map is not the territory." - #ScienceAndSanity #Korzybski
#GeneralSemantics: #words are map-tools for understanding; science develops more accurate maps ... #SharedFacts and continually corrects and improves ...
#GeneralSemantics: #words are map-tools for understanding; science develops more accurate maps ... #SharedFacts and continually corrects and improves ...
Really good as usual but let's please be careful to use both of these words carefully. *Both* propaganda and provocation are tools of the Fascist coalition and both are happening constantly.
This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.
This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
October 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
#FeralEmotions #Semantics #Perception #SemanticManipulation #PoliticalGameTheory #LiesFearHate #EmotionLogic #BrainFunction
#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity
#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity
truth,
as far as it goes
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yet Fascist ideology tends to formalize feral emotions in thick veneers of ideological (quasi- or pseudo- “intellectual”) justification, often with epic even mystic robing
as far as it goes
⚡️
yet Fascist ideology tends to formalize feral emotions in thick veneers of ideological (quasi- or pseudo- “intellectual”) justification, often with epic even mystic robing
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
#Semantics are important. Very important
#GeneralSemantics
#ScienceAndSanity #AlfredKorzybski
#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics
#ScienceAndSanity #AlfredKorzybski
#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
Maybe stop calling it an ‘experiment’, which implies something of a temporary nature. Are we to experiment with dictatorship, perhaps?
September 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
#Semantics are important. Very important
#GeneralSemantics
#ScienceAndSanity #AlfredKorzybski
#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics
#ScienceAndSanity #AlfredKorzybski
#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics
#ScienceAndSanity
#AlfredKorzybski
#EnergyNetworkScience
#MeasuringRegenerativeEconomics
#BrianFath etal
#ScienceAndSanity
#AlfredKorzybski
#EnergyNetworkScience
#MeasuringRegenerativeEconomics
#BrianFath etal
I am talking about our social inclination to 'adopt anxiety', and the consequential stunting of human maturity. The decline in maturity among adults may be traced to the corresponding adoption of chronic fear around what "might occur". Adopted anxiety is always a proxy for genuine suffering. /3
Vaccines, Voting & Venom: Trump’s Toxic Trail of Anxiety
Anxiety is the serial killer of human maturity. I’m not talking about the kind of intense stress you experience when your house catches fire or you receive a fearsome diagnosis or the world is cons…
thegathering.blog
February 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
#Semantics #Perception #EmotionLogic #HumanReasoning #CollectiveBehavior
#SemanticManipulation ...
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity
#SemanticManipulation ...
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity
This has been on my mind a lot lately and I wanted to put something down as a starting point for anyone else seeing the same thing.
The Power of Words: Reclaiming Language in an Age of Manipulation
Language shapes how we perceive the world, and those in power exploit this to maintain control. By reframing sanitized terms like 'lobbying' as 'bribery' or 'elites' as 'parasites,' we expose the truth behind these euphemisms and reclaim the narrative for meaningful change.
timeforactionnow.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Logic and realty are perpetually at odds.
#Logic #Reality #Reason #Truth #Existences #bluesky #HumansAreGreaterThanMoney #Humans>$
#Logic #Reality #Reason #Truth #Existences #bluesky #HumansAreGreaterThanMoney #Humans>$
April 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#EmotionLogic #BrainFunction
#Semantics #Perception
#GeneralSemantics
#GreatBooks #ScienceAndSanity
#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
#Semantics #Perception
#GeneralSemantics
#GreatBooks #ScienceAndSanity
#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
@allentien.bsky.social
Thank you for following!
We each possess ideological & theological beliefs. I politely pen lyrics & compose music into songs, but some are just comic sarcasm.
We create music to reduce listener anxiety, so our song/genre catalogue offers many lensed viewpoints.
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Thank you for following!
We each possess ideological & theological beliefs. I politely pen lyrics & compose music into songs, but some are just comic sarcasm.
We create music to reduce listener anxiety, so our song/genre catalogue offers many lensed viewpoints.
💙✌️🖖
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#Semantics #Perception #BrainFunction
#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity
#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity
For years, I've been saying that we learn medicine as our second language and that one of our most important jobs as physicians is to interpret it for our patients and their families. I finally wrote it down. #MedSky #pedsky
kevinmd.com/2025/03/lear...
kevinmd.com/2025/03/lear...
Learning the language of medicine: from student to fluent physician
Medicine is a language that physicians must first learn, immerse themselves in, and ultimately master to fluency, with their greatest skill being the ability to translate complex medical concepts into...
kevinmd.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM