Well, it's been influential in other fields. Neurolinguistic
programming for example, wouldn't be what it is. Also fields of
politics, deconstructionalism, perhaps even modern forms of
anarchy - even the whole hippie movement have found great
success using principles of general semantics.
Every time someone says, "The Map is Not the Territory" - it's
General Semantics. The levels of abstraction one might even say
have infliuenced a majority of programming languages - database
design which all about abstracting abstractions...
... I mean it's mindboggling to me how influential it's been.
"It's just a label man". = G.S. Well, I believe the map and the
territory are one because of us. The either/or ness expressed
within GS was useful and continues to be...[I know he was
striving for a both/and - and succeeded.. but not entirely] but
I think there's a way of synergizing it ; bringing the
abstractions back together so that a cohesive whole can be
formed which includes ... well.. everything. Truths and lies,
subjectivity and objectivity - an accurate integration of
categorizations into a form that is no longer divisive but
inclusive.
[GS wasn't exclusive with the categorization... I was speaking
in general about the overall problem GS was addressing]
This isn't a knock against GS .. but having lived and breathed
it unknowingly, I want to go farther.
