Anthony Chaney, “Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness” (UNC Press, 2017)
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The Double Bind
The double bind is like another term we use as a wicked dilemma. One of those problems that seems to refute common sense solutions. We perceive a problem, we react to that problem in the way that we make sense to us and what happens, the problem gets worse. And now this is the title of your book, the runaway. Going into a runaway situation where, you know, it may disintegrate or it may find a new range.
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