ETC: A Review of General Semantics
Volume 82, Number 1 January 2025
COVER ART
Stephen Roxborough Ancient Symbols: Signs of City Life
Thom Gencarelli Letter from the Editor
Oleksandr Bohomolets-Barash The Complexity of the Concept of Europe: An
Interdisciplinary Approach
Olek Netzer The Insanity of Autocratic Education for Democracy
Devkumar Trivedi Meditations on Metamorphosis [COCOON Contemplations]
[POEM]
Joshua Clements Troublesome Antics: What General Semanticists and the
Sophists Have in Common
Milton Dawes Mertis of an Experimental Approach
Devkumar Trivedi Walky-Talky [POEM]
Elsa G. Sánchez Huerta Villalba The Generational Gap: Obstacle or Opportunity?
Thomas A. Fish The New Mayor of Topeka is...
David Miller Remains [POEM]
Tim Lyons Introduction, from YPC (Your Present Correspondent),
Regarding the Ideas and Adventures of Heathcliff
Doolmind O'Shaughnessy (HDOS)
BOOK REVIEWS
Martin H. Levinson Brown, B. (2021). Atlas of the heart: Mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience. Random House. (Reviewed by Mary Lahman)
Cave, P. (2023). How to think like a philosopher: Scholars, dreamers and sages who can teach us how to live. Bloomsbury.
Haidt, J. (2024). The anxious generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. Penguin.
Hayes, C. (2025). Sirens' call: How attention became the world's endangered resource. Penguin.
Pettegree, A., & der Weduwen, A. (2021). The library: A fragile history. Basic Books.
Twenge, J. (2023). Generations: The real differences between gen z, millennials, gen x, boomers, and silents – and what they mean for America's future. Atria