Alfred Korzybski Primitive man used natural laws without knowing them or understanding them, but he was able to cause nature to express itself, by finding a way to release nature’s […]
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Ron Patterson I have been following the overpopulation debate now for almost forty years but have been following the fossil energy depletion debate for far less than that. Nevertheless, I […]
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Alfred Korzybski Man has ever been the greatest puzzle to man. There are many and important reasons for this fact. As the subject of this book is not a theoretical, […]
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Alfred Korzybski To analyse the classes of life we have to consider two very different kinds of phenomena: the one embraced under the collective name-Inorganic chemistry-the other under the collective […]
Continue readingWhen Should We Have Stopped?
Richard Douthwaite Where did humanity go wrong? When did we take a path which, because ‘one path leads to another’ in Robert Frost’s phrase, inexorably led us to becoming totally […]
Continue readingA New Concept of Life
Timothy Wilken Alfred Korzybski coined the term Timebinding in his classic Manhood of Humanity published in 1921. Time-binding is the power to understand—to observe and remember change over time. This power […]
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by John H. Makin AEI Economic Outlook While there is plenty of argument about where the U.S. economy is headed next year, the argument about Japan’s economy is over. During […]
Continue readingChildhood of Humanity
Alfred Korzybski The conclusion of the World War is the closing of the period of the childhood of humanity. This childhood, as any childhood, can be characterized as devoid of […]
Continue readingDo You Know the Three Classes of Life?
In 1921, Alfred Korzybski, a mathematician and scientist, classified Life with precise and accurate operational definitions of plants, animals, and humans. He defined the plants as energy-binders, the animals as […]
Continue readingDr. Youngquist warns We Are Running on Empty
Worldwide, Youngquist and Duncan project that oil production will peak at 30.6 billion barrels a year in 2007, when the consequences of the longstanding decline in the rate of discovery […]
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