Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness
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INTRODUCTION Gregory Bateson and the Spirit of 1967
(pp. 1-17)
In a 1986 interview, the poet Allen Ginsberg was asked to look back on the year 1967. That was the year of psychedelia, the year of the Human Be-In, where San Francisco’s counterculture came out to the American mainstream. It was the year the Beatles’Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Bandwas released, initiating a season that some called Vietnam Summer and others the Summer of Love. What was the true impact of that fabled year, Ginsberg was asked, and what remained of its spirit?
Ginsberg’s answer may be unexpected. Civilization was conscious now that “the planet as an ecological...
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ONE The Way to Waimanalo
(pp. 18-44)
Gregory Bateson spent most of the 1960s watching dolphins. He had worked with the famous bottlenose,Flipper-type dolphins in the Virgin Islands earlier in the decade, but by 1965, his subjects were of a small species known as “spinners.” They were held in an immense 300,000-gallon tank, an “oceanarium” called Bateson’s Bay, newly built for Bateson’s research at the Oceanic Institute in Waimanalo, Hawaii. Waimanalo was a sleepy village on the eastern coast of Oahu, across the Wa’ahila Ridge from Honolulu and Waikiki. Bateson lived there in a ramshackle beach house with his third wife, Lois, and their two sons,...
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