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.