Olek Netzer Boeken

Building on the time-tested, reality-based discipline of general semantics, Olek Netzer provides a guide for clear and critical thinking, a guide for the perplexed that steers individuals in the direction of enhanced rationality and improved evaluation of our experiences, environments, and ourselves. His concern is with both our psychological well being and our societal health, as he addresses interpersonal relations as well as political persuasion and propaganda, drawing on some of the most important thinkers of the past century Lance Strate, President of the Institute of General Semantics, Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University.

Political Parties all over the world remain pyramidal structures with Power-Corruption built-in, as members compete for higher positions on the organizational ladder. This Blueprint offers an alternative. Today we possess sufficient practical knowledge about interpersonal dynamics that we can use to structure decision-making processes in ways both humanly decent and politically effective. Alternatives developed in Applied Behavioral Science can work for persons who want to become empowered by organizing without becoming corrupted by power struggle and Machiavellian practices. At the very least, this Blueprint contains the strongest antidotes to Power Corruption that has poisoned the lives of idealistic and conscientious reformers and revolutionaries in the past. Political organization that puts power in the hands of all members at all times rather than in the hands of top leaders would be a radical departure from all the unsuccessful earlier attempts to organize.