GETTING CLIENTS IN AND OUT OF MUDDLES

I am re-reading Bateson’s classic, Toward an Ecology of Mind (1972). It is my seventh time and maybe, just maybe, I’ll understand him this time. (Actually I doubt it, but at least I’m getting a bit closer to his genius!)

Bateson begins his book with a bunch of Metalogues with his daughter. These metalogues are imaginary conversations that he wrote as if a father-and-daughter are talking about the structures of experiences— a delightful way to edge a reader into the depth of his philosophy about epistemology and linguistics.