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 centuryLance Strate, President of the Institute of General Semantics, Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University.Olek Netzer is an independent researcher in Political Psychology and a political activist residing in Tel Aviv, Israel.