Bill B.
I don't remember ever being so completely baffled by anything as I was trying to comprehend this Double Bind thing-me-jig. Absolutely nothing makes sense of any kind, I don't even have any idea what it is I don't understand, is it some kind of cryptic joke? What's the point?
See below my desperate attempts to analyse the riddle:
At 7:42 PM -0500 5/2/07, Jerry Monaco wrote:
>Wikipedia has a nice paraphrase of Bateson's idea of a situation of a
>Double Bind....
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind
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^^^^^^^ CB: Gregory Bateson was one of Margaret Mead's husbands. His father was William Bateson ,biologist who had some LaMarckian theories. I met him in about 1972 at the time _Steps to an Ecology of Mind_ came out.
Here's a derivative riddle.
Politics of Prof. John ___'s Class Experience ( 1972)
In a classless class, The teacher was oppressed by the class. Paradox underlay classroom struggle, And our minds:
In le Fronde, to a louse of Levi-Strauss, John sounded like a river doused, R.D. Laing mouse: 'the mountains are sacred, With templed pyramids, treasure boxes. The conscious and other consciouses, The part and the whole, One with the Universe, With Jung and with Yoga, Why , the inside's the outside, and...'
'Hold that Cline bottle talk ! (from one culturally boxed) 'Is it paradise or Pandora's box Paradox locks and unlocks ? And what of empirical gnomes and queries ?
Class of all classes, That don't contain themselves... Double Bind in the Mind ! Tangled rules, but exposed, So, John, you get Hempel's ,
Streaking * rose.
* streaking - early '70's campus prank of running naked publically at football games and such.