To me the "great error" Korzybski made—and I carried on, financial necessity—and for which we pay the price today in many criticisms, consisted in not restricting ourselves to training very thoroughly "a very few people" who would be competent to utilize the discipline in various fields and to train others. We should have done this before encouraging anyone to popularize or spread the word (horrid phrase) in societies for general semantics, by talking "about" general semantics instead of learning, using, etc. the methodology to "change" our essential epistemological assumptions, premises, etc. (unconscious or conscious), i.e. the "un"-learning basic to learning to learn.