Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
The assumption is that evolution is a line. But evolution is in the context, in what we learn together, mutually.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
Ideas change; in fact, they never stop changing.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
Complexity does not divide itself, and therefore life requires calibration within multiple streams of information and interaction.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
In what circumstances can a ‘something’ be of economic value without being commodified, objectified, exploited? Can we imagine an economy that does not commodify life?
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
The alternative to trust is not doubt, but rigid control.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
Perhaps this is more about the unique arrangement that each person learns to live within. Proclivities and aversions, aptitudes and challenges all form an aesthetic of learning and mutual learning that we might call ‘character.’
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
Unity is not about oneness, it requires the process of uniting, which requires relationality.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
Apocalypse is a linear idea, and we do not live in a linear world.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
We are normalized into an unworkable imbalance, forever tearing the world into pieces and reifying the need to grasp each answer, each ‘solution,’ and freeze it.