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New Essay: “No One Saw It Coming?”

Milton Dawes — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:21:11 +0000

Please note that my new essay titled “No One Saw It Coming?: Korzybski’s Concerns, Predictions, and Time-Binding Suggestions” is available in my Formal Papers & Essays section, under the heading “Science & Technology.”

You can also immediately read the essay by clicking here.

Poor Thinking?

Milton Dawes — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:15:54 +0000

Where are the critical thinkers? Is there no one with enough courage to suggest that a statement referring to the constitutional rights of a group, and a statement about the wisdom of that group making a decision based on those rights, is not “being inconsistent, flip flopping, back tracking”, etc., as I have heard on the airwaves (talk shows, commentators (“professional gossips” I label them) and so called ‘news’ programs (full of interviews, personal analyses, comments and opinions,etc.)”

Do these individuals think so poorly, are they just being so partisan, are the ‘experts’ on the radio and television programs simply concerned with asking mischievous, provocative, designed to create controversy, questions for ratings? What’s going on?

Where are the critical thinkers.

Milton

Financial Reform

Milton Dawes — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:39:26 +0000

I invite you to do some time-binding and improve the proposal below.

Design the ”financial reform laws” to include the following: “It’s illegal to institute or activate any new or amended ‘instruments’ created by a registered ‘financial institution’ before submitting such new or amended instrument to regulatory committees for review and approval.