Where it's at
My hastily written post (Tories living in Stalinist Britain) about the arrest of British tory MP, Damian Green (or more accurately about the absurd statements made about his arrest by the tory party)...
View ArticleThe genie's out of the bottle
A message was recently sent to an online group of which I’m a member. Dealing with numerous issues, the group has expanded beyond merely “energy resources” and now tends to cover the broader issue of...
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Bateson on ‘The Sacred’
Everyone who knows me is aware that I can be rather evangelical about the work of Gregory Bateson, and in particular about his collected essays, Steps to an Ecology of Mind. There are two reasons for...
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I’m Lovin’ it
Commercial advertising directed at children is one of the great evils of our age. Benjamin R. Barber’s excellent book, Consumed, examines the phenomenon in detail and presents sobering evidence that...
View Article4th July 1980 – The Death of Gregory Bateson
Why not pop over to On This Deity and read my new article. 4th July 1980: The Death of Gregory Bateson. There is no shortage of events to remember on July 4th. So I’m extremely pleased that On This...
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Gregory Bateson bibliography and links
Gregory BatesonJust a quick follow-up to my latest post over at On This Deity for those who’d like to find out more about visionary intellectual, Gregory Bateson. Although his work is finally beginning...
View ArticleBateson of The Day
What the unaided consciousness (unaided by art, dreams, and the like) can never appreciate is the systemic nature of mind. This notion can conveniently be illustrated by an analogy: the living human...
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An Ecology of Mind (film) – UK Tour
Gregory BatesonThe name “Gregory Bateson” will be familiar to regular readers of this blog. It will also be familiar to a small number of academics who have studied his work in such disparate fields as...
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Corporate donors to St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
Blessed are the rich, for they shall inherit the earth Matthew 5:5 | New Testament (Church of England edition, 2012) Last night in London, police and bailiffs with the blessing of the Church of England...
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Even the ‘centre left’ is on The Right
A little while ago I put together a graphic as a metaphor for just how much the political spectrum has shifted (specifically in the western liberal democracies) over the past few decades. This shift...
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