A quote by Gregory Bateson
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A quote by Gregory Bateson
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
~ Gregory Bateson
Increasingly of the belief that most problems are cultural, not technological.
Like Gus Speth said:
“The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy – & to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation”
Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.
― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People... See more
“Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes, but the question was surely wrong. We should have asked: Can logic simulate all sequences of cause and effect? And the answer would have been no.”
― Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity
― Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity
Gregory Bateson Quotes (Author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind)
Most of the problems with humans can be boiled down to unchecked Primitive Minds getting their way against the Higher Mind’s better judgment.