Objectivism and Sanity

[tjohnson]

I read this transcription of a speech by Nathaniel Branden here http://rous.redbarn.org/objectivism/Writin...AndHazards.html

I found this quite fascinating because during my brief exposure to Objectivism and comparing it to General Semantics I feel that Dr. Branden came to many conclusions I also did. The most important, in my opinion, is the lack of a method to reach the goals of Objectivism in an individual - goals that are shared I think with GS. The issues which Dr. Branden brought up in this respect were addressed in Korzybski's work and it actually became both a theory of sanity and a therapeutic method to reach this goal. Another therapist, Albert Ellis, was heavily influenced by Korzybski but apparently did not see eye to eye with Brandon but Ellis was not strictly following Korzybski as he created something called REBT and I am not familiar with that. All I can say is that I have used GS for 30 odd years and I felt that Branden's views seemed very similar to mine and GS in general.