If you See the Buddha on the Road:
Kill Him.
An Enemy is as Good as a Jesus
Don't be postponing joy
& don't be looking
at him straight-on, but rather side-wise &
slant, corner of the I: success in circuit lies.
"The suggestion I'd like to advance is that
what is important for avoiding dissonances,
which are the result of imperfect perception,
is a constant shift in the way we perceive...
it is necessary that we continually shift
our [I's]; if these movements are in some
way inhibited, our vision becomes impaired.
t is by changing the vantage point, changing
the perspective, that we avoid perceptual
dissonances... We need to know the basis for
developing a willingness -- indeed a need--for
reappraising goals and attitudes"
(Peter Klopfer, author of Habitats and Territories,
& Behavioral Aspects of Ecology)
I need to see my self as a part of
the system like an actor turned
director who will discipline my
wish to steal the show, or a monkey
turned Jane Goodall who will look &
look & look & find it all very interesting,
very good. (me: elaborating on Barry
Commoner)
The CURE Could be
Worse than the Curse
"My worry was simply in terms of the difficulty
of suggesting Corrective Measures, since,
if these were devised with the same conceptual
limitations as the original limitations, they would
probably produce similar pathologies.
Even if the necessary, positive, corrective
measures were known, it would be impossible
to advocate them in the oversimplified rhetoric
of public debate. I find this still: that in a brief
discussion of some ecological issues I often
can counsel only non-intervention.
It will take many, many people, thinking in a
new way, to evolve an effective positive concern
for the environment, to replace a hap-hazard
plugging of holes in the dike.
In order to do this [we] will have to share a new
style of thought".
(MC Bateson quoting her father, Gregory,
in 1969)
at him straight-on, but rather side-wise &
slant, corner of the I: success in circuit lies.
"The suggestion I'd like to advance is that
what is important for avoiding dissonances,
which are the result of imperfect perception,
is a constant shift in the way we perceive...
it is necessary that we continually shift
our [I's]; if these movements are in some
way inhibited, our vision becomes impaired.
t is by changing the vantage point, changing
the perspective, that we avoid perceptual
dissonances... We need to know the basis for
developing a willingness -- indeed a need--for
reappraising goals and attitudes"
(Peter Klopfer, author of Habitats and Territories,
& Behavioral Aspects of Ecology)
I need to see my self as a part of
the system like an actor turned
director who will discipline my
wish to steal the show, or a monkey
turned Jane Goodall who will look &
look & look & find it all very interesting,
very good. (me: elaborating on Barry
Commoner)
The CURE Could be
Worse than the Curse
"My worry was simply in terms of the difficulty
of suggesting Corrective Measures, since,
if these were devised with the same conceptual
limitations as the original limitations, they would
probably produce similar pathologies.
Even if the necessary, positive, corrective
measures were known, it would be impossible
to advocate them in the oversimplified rhetoric
of public debate. I find this still: that in a brief
discussion of some ecological issues I often
can counsel only non-intervention.
It will take many, many people, thinking in a
new way, to evolve an effective positive concern
for the environment, to replace a hap-hazard
plugging of holes in the dike.
In order to do this [we] will have to share a new
style of thought".
(MC Bateson quoting her father, Gregory,
in 1969)
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