A summary of the conclusions he reached at the end of his career might run like this: both society and the environment are profoundly sick, skewed and ravaged by the Western obsession with control and power, a mindset made all the more destructive by advances in technology.
— Read on aeon.co/essays/gregory-bateson-changed-the-way-we-think-about-changing-ourselves
Very interesting. How conflicting demands lead to problematic oscillating behavior. How relinquishing control, accepting that we cannot need to meet all demands and choosing which ones not to meet is the solution Occidentals have a hard time embracing.
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