Until he encountered Korzybski, Chase was mostly an economics writer. We corresponded quite a bit for the next couple years, but then we drifted apart. Curiously, the General Semantics Bulletin , the official publication of Korzybski's Institute, made only a passing mention of Chase's death, even though he was an honorary trustee. He responded with a blank expression. I recounted to him the historical significance of Chase to gs.
Corporations fill but one cage in a large menagerie.
Let us glance at some of the other queer creatures created by personifying abstractions in America. When it sternly raises its arm, we are ready to die for it. Following it is one even more sinister, Bureaucracy. Both are festooned with the writhing serpents of red tape. High in the heavens is the Constitution, a kind of chalice like the Holy Grail, suffused with ethereal light.