I'm a big fan of Korzybski and General Semantics, and I appreciate your summary of Manhood of Humanity, as I never read it, but primarily it serves to show that the book was not the Manhood of Korzybski himself.

What a load of confused, moralistic, essentialist piffle.

Sciences like ethics, sociology, economics, politics and government should be changed

Speaking of category errors...

Sciences have moral imperatives?

How should we distribute the wealth that exists

What do you mean 'we', kemo sabe?

That goes double for all the squawk about "our", wants, desires, feelings, etc. Does he have data on all these empirical claims, or is he just projecting his preferences on everyone else? I'm thinking the latter.

It's hard to comment on so much that's not even false.

He turns the human capability for time binding into a moral duty to time bind. Do it for the children! And the children's children, ad infinitum.

I somewhat hold that time binding as a value myself, and wish people would appreciate it more, but I recognize those as my values, and don't project them on others, who for the most part are more interested in "peace and vittles in my time", if not "crushing their enemies and hearing the lamentation of their women".

The economics of adult humanity will optimize

Everybody all enthused about being "optimized"?

He simply stinks of a central planner who feels entitled to impose his vision of the anointed on "the masses".

I recall much of this juvenile moral and political philsoophy stinking up Science and Sanity in patches, but happily that wasn't the focus of the work. Ok, K is hopping up on his soap box to rant again. Fine. Whatever. Wake me when it's over. But Manhood of Humanity sounds like all rant and little signal.