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#Redirect [[Sombunall]] |
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===Proposition for a new inclusion into your Reality Map=== |
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The following is copied right out of ''''The New Inquisition'''' by Robert Anton Wilson (New Falcon Publications)pages 25-26 |
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====Sombunall==== |
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Is this a new wonder-drug? The latest computer from japan? The swahili word for water-closet? Another borrowing from [[Finnegans Wake]]?(novel written by [[James Joyce]]) |
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Sombunall is, I think, a word we badly need. It means: |
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:'''''som'''''e-'''''bu'''''t-'''''n'''''ot-'''''all'''''. |
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We have already pointed out that ''perception involves abstraction'' (or subtraction) -- When we look at an apple we do not see all the apple but only part of the surface of the apple -- And our generalizations of [[Reality Tunnel|reality tunnels]] are made up of coordinates or orchestrations of these abstractions-- |
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We never know "all"; we know, at best, '''''somebunall'''''. |
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Now, to return to my frequent occupation of writing science fiction, imagine a world which German did not contain the word "''alles''" or any of its derivatives, but did include some form of '''''sombunall'''''. |
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Adolph Hitler would never have been able to say, or even think , most of his generalizations about all Jews. At most, he would have been talking or thinking about sombunall Jews. |
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I don't claim this alone would necessarily have prevented the Holocaust -- I am not about to offer some form of liguistic determinism to rival Marx's economic determinism of Hitler's own racial determinism, but-- |
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Holocaust mentalities are '''''encouraged''''' by all-ness statements.<br> |
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They are '''''discouraged''''' by sombunall statements. |
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Imagine Arthur Schopenhauer with a '''''sombunall''''' instead of an '''''all''''' in his vocabulary. He could still have generalized about sombunall women, but not about all women; and a major source of literary misogyny(definition:hatres or hostility towards women) would have vanished from our culture. Imagine the Feminists writing about sombunall men, but not all men. Imagine a debate about UFOs in which both sides could generalize as much as they wished about sombunall sightings but there was no linguistic form to generalize about all such sightings. |
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'''Imagine what would happen if, along with this semantic hygiene, the Aristotelian ''is'' were replaced by the neurologically-accurate "seems to me."''' |
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"All modern music is junk" would become "sombunall modern music seems like junk to me." Other [[dogmatic]] statements would become, e.g. "Sombunall scientists seem to me ignorant of art and culture," "Sombunall artists seem to me ignorant of science," "Sombunall Englishmen seem to me a bit pompous," "Sombunall Irishmen seem to me to drink alot" . . . |
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Idols would suddenly shrink back into [[models]] or [[Reality Tunnel|reality-tunnels]]; we would remember that we created them, or that our ancestors did. We might become suddenly startlingly sane. |
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It's only a suggestion. |
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Related: [[E Prime]], [[Models]] | [[Robert Anton Wilson]] [[Reality Tunnel]] | [[NLP]] | [[General Semantics]] | [[Verbal Abuse]] |
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[[Category:Robert Anton Wilson]] |
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[[Category:Jargon]] |
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[[Category:Definitions]] |
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[[Category:Paradigm Shift]] |
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[[Category:Survival]] |
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[[Category:Psychology]] |
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[[Category:Linguistics]] |
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