William Burroughs references Korzybski's time binding principle in his essay The Electronic Revolution , and elsewhere. Postman's student Lance Strate , a co-founder of the Media Ecology Association, served as executive director of the Institute of General Semantics from to Had the science of semantics developed as rapidly as psychodynamics, and its implementing arts of propaganda and mob psychology, the United States might never have fallen into dictatorship , then been forced to undergo the Second Revolution Nehemiah Scudder is elected president in , and turns the US into a religious dictatorship.