Re: [metatuning] Ten Minutes a Day; Bateson

Hi Paul,

> From: <paul@...>
> To: <metatuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 4:14 PM
> Subject: [metatuning] Ten Minutes a Day
>
>
> I'm forwarding this message from my long-lost friend, Graham
> Br . . . ownstein. I hope you all get something out of it, as I did.
>
>
> > <snip>
> >
> >
> > The only thing I am certain of at this point is that we all need to work
> > much harder on being okay with being uncertain. The world is a chaotic
and
> > turbulent place. If we lock down or seek rigidity or certainty--even in
> > ways that are seemingly unimportant--we set ourselves up for being
broken
> > in even more ways and places than we have been these last weeks.
> >
> > <snip>

There's a lot of good in this! Thanks for forwarding it.
This section in particular really jumped out at me.

I used to have a terrific book by Gregory Bateson, called
_Steps To An Ecology Of Mind_. It's an anthology of essays
he wrote from the 1930s to 1972, spanning a wide variety of
different disciplines, and which are arranged in such order
that they progress logically to the final essay,
"Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization".

In that final paper, Bateson outlines ways to build flexibility
into a variety of different aspects of modern life, precisely
because he views (and argues very convincingly for) having lots
of room for a wide "margin of error" in various parameters as
being indispensible towards continued survival of any given system.

I recommend reading that book, as well as anything else you
can find by Bateson.

love / peace / harmony ...

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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