Now if you could only work in James Blish, Robin, as he worked on the early
episodes of Star Trek, we might even get to Mr Spock and all his logical
relations
david b
----- Original Message -----
From: Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: "definitions" of My Poessays
> From: david.bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Please, please Uncle Robin, tell us a Nice Story about Conspiracies.
> > Pleeeeease.
> >
> >
> > Korzybski? Sixties?
>
> Hey, really truly don't know?
>
> Count Alfred Korzybski, author of +Science and Sanity+ and founder of The
> Institute of General Semantics+, frowned on by most orthodox linguists,
but
> one of his proteges, Hakayama (sp?) gets footnoted regularly.
>
> IGS tends to be low-profile (nottosay low-maintenance) +but+ ...
>
> Sokal forefronts Chomsky in _Intellectual Impostures_, but if you chase
the
> footnotes, a helluva lotta the ones (linguistics) he mentions are tied in
to
> IGS.
>
> So you have this neato leftist tie-in of Sokal/Chomsky/Korzyski.
>
> And lets not bring up the possibility that the whole (what there is of)
> intellectual basis of Scientology derives from Van Vogt rather than LRon,
> and kicksback to GenSam.
>
> Conspiracy theories? I have them like a cat has fleas ...
>
> Robin
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