Beyond Good & Evil and that
“Damned Moral Sense”
Gregory
Bateson studied addicts and
schizophrenics
and dolphins as if they
were
philosophers—devising their own
self-validating,
confirming systemic
sense. Not
as aberrations, dysfunctional,
abnormal,
anomalies.
Damn:
that’s interesting—how they do
that and
why? Burning them churches.
Worshipping
that flag. Fiddling with small
children.
Beheading Christian women.
Cutting
themselves. Starving. Ingesting
random pharmaceuticals
from bathroom
cabinets.
Exploding in public places.
Sneaking
over borders towards frontiers
yet unknown.
Fascinated with zombies and
walking
dead, vampires and werewolves,
scandals
and the sanctity of marriage and
family
Very
interesting: Gregory’s approach. Like
Jane’s--studying
chimpanzees. No such
a thing
as a bad chimp. All a revelation.
Telling.
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