
Anthony Chaney, “Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness” (UNC Press, 2017)
New Books in Systems and Cybernetics
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The Common Speed: A New Orientation to Reality
Bateson is trying to advance his ideas for this new orientation to reality. He's talking about problems from that perspective, from the system as a whole. It includes these people who are at this conference. They can't like be against, over against something. They're part of it. Right? And so he's going to talk about those problems. The question and answer session following Bateson's talk was dramatized in the question and answer set. We have to get on their side because they're fighting for their lives right now in Vietnam. In the cities of the United States, you know, there are racial unrest riots going on. We don't have the luxury to think
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