Agreed on GS being on the opaque side!
Best thing I’ve read is Language in Thought and Action by Hayakawa. I found it explained the concepts much more clearly than Koryzbski’s writings.
Drive Yourself Sane is meant to be an intro to GS and has good reviews. I can’t remember much of it as read it >7 years ago, however I recall it didn’t do as much for me as Hayakawa’s book
This reminds me of the Ladder of Abstraction in General Semantics: moving up the levels of abstraction to talk about things in general, and moving down to clarify the details that make up each generalisation