Many people have a just horror at the thought of putting poison into tea or coffee, but seem unable to realize that, when they teach false ideas and false doctrines, they are poisoning the time-binding capacity of their fellow men and women. Humans can be literally poisoned by false ideas and false teachings. … He said to himself, 'If I am an animal there is also in me something higher, a spark of some thing supernatural.' … He had thus a new faculty, he belonged to a new dimension but, of course, he did not realize it and because he had this new capacity he was able to analyze his brother 'A' he observed 'A is my brother he is an animal but he is my brother therefore, I AM AN ANIMAL.' This fatal first conclusion, reached by false analogy, by neglecting a fact, has been the chief source of human woe for half a million years and it still survives. Let us imagine that the aboriginal-original human specimen was one of two brother apes, A and B they were alike in every respect both were animal space-binders but something strange happened to B he became the first time-binder, a human.Alfred Korzybski (1921), Manhood of Humanity : The Science and Art of Human Engineering, New York : E.
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