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RadiationTherapy

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8. Oh, yes, I agree. I think it is nearly impossible to change ideologies without therapy
Wed May 24, 2017, 01:43 PM
May 2017

and hallucinogenics (Leary et al). LSD is a well-known "world-shatterer," but even then, I am not too sure.

I think Korzybski recognized we have to use labels sometimes for some things and was really just warning us that labels are complex and not merely convenient. For me, I have to persist with criticizing behaviors and ideologies as separate from the individual or group enacting them, but that is a personal quest. I am a firm believer that violence treads where communication fails, and I am - as far as I can tell - a firm pacifist.

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