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Article: Mapping the causes of World War I to avoid Armageddon today.
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- ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
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- April 1, 2005
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Most Americans did not experience the tremendous upset that World War
I caused in Europe. Korzybski had experienced the debacle of the
Eastern Front, with its devastation of Poland and parts of Russia. He
brought this memory with him when the Russian Army sent him to Canada
and the United States in December, 1915, to oversee the acceptance of
orders for military supplies. Throughout the chaotic years near the
war's end, he kept asking himself, "How could this be prevented?"
--M. Kendig
Alfred Korzybski: Collected Writings 1920-1950, p.xxi
THE DEVASTATION and social collapse caused by World War I (also called the Great War) led Alfred Korzybski ...