{"id":36340,"date":"2011-08-24T19:15:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T03:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36340"},"modified":"2011-08-24T19:35:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T03:35:36","slug":"drive-yourself-sane-the-life-of-alfred-korzybski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36340","title":{"rendered":"Drive Yourself Sane &#8211; The Life Of Alfred Korzybski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WR28iAGL-k8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G2wjLB3eqbc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dav0hxpwM1M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EzY6uSF5vk4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g81KAS0eVFs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7JScZsJ2Qpg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M8fXMRUfCm0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d1If4wvVD80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yNkIPu7RxP4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Korzybski\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><b>Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski<\/b>&nbsp;(<span class=\"IPA\" style=\"font-family: 'Gentium Plus', Gentium, GentiumAlt, 'Charis SIL', 'Doulos SIL', 'DejaVu Sans', Code2000, 'TITUS Cyberbit Basic', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Chrysanthi Unicode'; white-space: nowrap;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:IPA_for_Polish\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Wikipedia:IPA for Polish\">[k\u0254\u02c8\u0290\u0268pski]<\/a><\/span>) (July 3, 1879 \u2013 March 1, 1950) was a&nbsp;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polish-American\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Polish-American\">Polish-American<\/a>&nbsp;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philosopher\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Philosopher\">philosopher<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scientist\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Scientist\">scientist<\/a>. He is remembered most for developing the theory of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_semantics\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"General semantics\">general semantics<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he interrupted the lesson suddenly in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase. He muttered that he just had to eat something, and he asked the students on the seats in the front row if they would also like a biscuit. A few students took a biscuit. &#8220;Nice biscuit, don&#8217;t you think,&#8221; said Korzybski, while he took a second one. The students were chewing vigorously. Then he tore the white paper from the biscuits, in order to reveal the original packaging. On it was a big picture of a dog&#8217;s head and the words &#8220;Dog Cookies.&#8221; The students looked at the package, and were shocked. Two of them wanted to vomit, put their hands in front of their mouths, and ran out of the lecture hall to the toilet. &#8220;You see,&#8221; Korzybski remarked, &#8220;I have just demonstrated that people don&#8217;t just eat food, but also words, and that the taste of the former is often outdone by the taste of the latter.&#8221;<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-0\" style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Korzybski#cite_note-0\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;\"><span>[<\/span>1<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;\">\n&#8230;Korzybski&#8217;s work influenced&nbsp;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rational_Emotive_Behavior_Therapy\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy\">Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy<\/a>,<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-1\" style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Korzybski#cite_note-1\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;\"><span>[<\/span>2<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuro-linguistic_programming\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Neuro-linguistic programming\">Neuro-linguistic programming<\/a><sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-2\" style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Korzybski#cite_note-2\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;\"><span>[<\/span>3<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;(especially the&nbsp;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meta_model_(NLP)\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Meta model (NLP)\">Meta model<\/a>, Korzybski&#8217;s critique of cause-effect thinking, and ideas behind human modeling for performance). As reported in the Third Edition of&nbsp;<i>Science and Sanity<\/i>, The U.S. Army in World War II used his system to treat battle fatigue in Europe with the supervision of Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, who also became the psychiatrist in charge of the Nazi prisoners at Nuremberg. Other individuals influenced by Korzybski include&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alejandro_Jodorowsky\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Alejandro Jodorowsky\">Alejandro Jodorowsky<\/a>,<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-3\" style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Korzybski#cite_note-3\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;\"><span>[<\/span>4<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenneth_Burke\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Kenneth Burke\">Kenneth Burke<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_S._Burroughs\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"William S. Burroughs\">William S. Burroughs<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Herbert\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Frank Herbert\">Frank Herbert<\/a>,&nbsp;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Ellis_(psychologist)\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Albert Ellis (psychologist)\">Albert Ellis<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gregory_Bateson\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Gregory Bateson\">Gregory Bateson<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Grinder\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"John Grinder\">John Grinder<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buckminster_Fuller\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Buckminster Fuller\">Buckminster Fuller<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_Engelbart\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Douglas Engelbart\">Douglas Engelbart<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stuart_Chase\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Stuart Chase\">Stuart Chase<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alvin_Toffler\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Alvin Toffler\">Alvin Toffler<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_A._Heinlein\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Robert A. Heinlein\">Robert A. Heinlein<\/a>&nbsp;(Korzybski is mentioned in the 1940 short story &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blowups_Happen\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Blowups Happen\">Blowups Happen<\/a>&#8221; and the 1949 novella&nbsp;<i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gulf_(Heinlein)\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Gulf (Heinlein)\">Gulf<\/a><\/i>),&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dianetics\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Dianetics\">L.Ron Hubbard<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A._E._van_Vogt\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"A. E. van Vogt\">A. E. van Vogt<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Anton_Wilson\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Robert Anton Wilson\">Robert Anton Wilson<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Watts\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Alan Watts\">Alan Watts<\/a>, entertainer&nbsp;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Allen_(comedian)\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Steve Allen (comedian)\">Steve Allen<\/a>, and Tommy Hall (lyricist for the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/13th_Floor_Elevators\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"13th Floor Elevators\">13th Floor Elevators<\/a>); and scientists such as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Alanson_White\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"William Alanson White\">William Alanson White<\/a>&nbsp;(psychiatry), physicist&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Percy_Williams_Bridgman\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Percy Williams Bridgman\">P. W. Bridgman<\/a>, and researcher W. Horsley Gantt (a former student and colleague of&nbsp;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ivan_Petrovich_Pavlov\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Ivan Petrovich Pavlov\">Pavlov<\/a>). He also influenced the Belgian&nbsp;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surrealist\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Surrealist\">surrealist<\/a>&nbsp;writer of comics&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jan_Bucquoy\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Jan Bucquoy\">Jan Bucquoy<\/a>&nbsp;in the seventh part of the comics series&nbsp;<i>Jaunes<\/i>:&nbsp;<i>Labyrinthe<\/i>, with explicit reference in the plot to Korzybski&#8217;s &#8220;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Map-territory_relation\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Map-territory relation\">the map is not the territory<\/a>&#8220;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;\">\nSome of the General Semantics tradition was continued by&nbsp;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_I._Hayakawa\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Samuel I. Hayakawa\">Samuel I. Hayakawa<\/a>, who did have a dispute with Korzybski. When asked because of what, Hayakawa is said to have replied: &#8220;Words.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tuesday morning, I interview by phone Alexander Technique teacher, physical therapist, author and Alfred Korzybski expert <A HREF=\"http:\/\/driveyourselfsane.com\">Bruce Kodish<\/a>, author of the new book, <em>Korzybski: A Biography<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Kodish previously published <em>Drive Yourself Sane: Uncover the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics<\/em> and <em>Dare to Inquire: Sanity and Survival for the 21st Century and Beyond<\/em>. For more info, go to his website <A HREF=\"http:\/\/driveyourselfsane.com\">DriveYourselfSane.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bruce also wrote <A HREF=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/backpainsolutionsnow\/\"><em>Back Pain Solutions: How to Help Yourself with Posture-Movement Therapy and Education<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia: Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski&nbsp;([k\u0254\u02c8\u0290\u0268pski]) (July 3, 1879 \u2013 March 1, 1950) was a&nbsp;Polish-American&nbsp;philosopher&nbsp;and&nbsp;scientist. 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