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• W53329566 abstract "closed my eyes and shook my head. you're really confusing me. Good. That's progress. must make you stumble over your cultural taboos. know of no other way to break down the way you've been conditioned to respond to words. When you hear the word gang, you've been conditioned to think, 'Bad - must not think When you hear the word cult, you've been conditioned to think, 'Bad - must not think When you hear the word tribe, you've been conditioned to think, 'Good t okay to think about.' am supposed to think about when hear the words gang and cult? can start by thinking, 'The word is not the thing.' You can start by thinking, 'The thing does not become bad by being called a bad name.' You can start by thinking, 'The fact that this thing has been called a bad name doesn't mean can't think about it.' (Quinn, 1997, p.213) ISHMAEL AND GENERAL SEMANTICS THEORY Never before have recommended a book in the way that recommend Quinn's novel, Ishmael. To anyone who earnestly desires that today's children may have the possibility and opportunity to grow to maturity, and eventually to see their own grandchildren grow to maturity, say: Within seven days of learning of the existence of this book, READ IT. What on earth could elicit so passionate, so un-cool a recommendation as that? By way of answer, first, let me summarize the story. Then I'll re-examine Ishmael from a general semantics point of view, taking into account recent developments in general semantics theory which pertain to human survival. Quinn's novel presents a first-person narrative - in my opinion, a spoken narrative. We never learn the name of the narrator, and we learn nothing whatsoever about his audience. When the narrative opens, the narrator has just read an ad in the CLASSIFIED section of the newspaper. The ad says, TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the Apply in person. (p.4) The narrator proceeds to have a temper-tantrum: ... choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor. Since even that didn't seem to be quite enough, snatched it up, marched into the kitchen, and shoved it into the trash. (p.3) Probably in response to a question, the narrator explains this outrageous behavior by saying that, a couple of decades ago, he had spent several years looking for, ... someone out there with an unknown wisdom who could dispel my disillusionment and bewilderment: a teacher. (p.5) never found one, and eventually, concluding that no such critter exists, gave up and went on about his life as best he could; ... but something died inside of me - something that I'd always sort of liked and admired. (p.6) now this CHARLATAN advertises in the newspaper - and of course, ... by noon two hundred mooncalfs, softheads, boobies, ninnyhammers, noodleheads, gawkies, and assorted oafs and thickwits would doubtless be lined up at the address given ... (p.4) Somehow the narrator overcomes his resistances and goes to the address given. sees no sign of any other respondent to the ad; and he finds and accepts a teacher. The teacher calls himself Ishmael, and the text even gives an account of how he comes to use that name. Almost the entire remainder of the text consists of the dialogue between these two characters, with an occasional I said, He said, etc. Ishmael says that his teaching concerns the topic of captivity. shows the relevance of this usage of the term captivity to the topic of saving the world succinctly: Ishmael thought for a moment. Among the people of your culture, which want to destroy the world? Which want to destroy it? As far as know, no one specifically wants to destroy the world. And yet you do destroy it, each of you. Each of you contributes daily to the destruction of the …" @default.
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