From the storyteller: [this was written in the 1930s, amazing] Every morning, news reaches us, from around the globe. And yet we lack remarkable stories. This is due to the fact that no incidents any longer reach us not already permeated with explanations. In other words: almost nothing occurs to the story's benefit anymore; instead, it all serves information. In fact, at least half of the heart of storytelling consists in keeping one's tale free of explanations..."
Heidegger - Current Geopolitics?
"The still hidden truth of Being is withheld from metaphysical humanity. The laboring animal is left to the giddy whirl of its products so that it may tear itself to pieces and annihilate itself in empty nothingness..."
-Overcoming Metaphysics - 1954
Korzybski
Structure in Science and a matching language
after referencing russell (positivist) and wittgenstein
'...under such empirical conditions, only a language originating in the analysis of collections, and, therefore a language of 'relations', 'order' would have a similar structure to the world around us. [looking for a better language to match empirical-positivist science - with all the social implications latent]. From the use of a subject-predicate form of language alone, many of our fallacious anti-social and 'individualistic' metaphysics and s.r [semantic reactions - words creating a nervous response] follow...
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