this is so brilliant. give kids the ability to create without making it dependent on their technical abilities. be a secretary for a child and make their dreams a reality that isnt overshadowed by 'cute' spelling errors #margaretmead #cathybateson #withadaughterseye

gregory bateson and margaret mead were constantly pioneering new social constructs. here, for example, is a horny jail they made for themselves where if you try to escape you get malaria #hornyjail #gregorybateson #margaretmead #withadaughterseye

cathy bateson is easily the intellectual peer of her parents. at the end of the book she predicts that culture will become even more homogenized and that people in the future will be interested in bateson/meads work as a lens into other possible cultures. im from the future and that did happen and those were the most valuable parts of the book!!

#pillastorytime #withadaughterseye #cathybateson

I did it!! I finished With A Daughters Eye and learned the secret I had been wondering - that in fact Cathy Bateson was an uncredited full author of Mind and Nature as she was the one typing up and editing the secrets of the universe that Gregory was rambling away at her while his cancer was briefly in remission. Idk whether to go back thru it for quotations now or to start on A Rap on Race

#withadaughterseye #cathybateson #gregorybateson #pillastorytime #mindandnature

margaret mead would look you dead in the eye and say "that was a poggers moment" and you would say yeah it sure was

#margaretmead #withadaughterseye #pillastorytime

a rare moment of defeat: margaret mead organizes a conference about rituals, and it falls flat because she mixed comparative religion scholars with catholic priests who believe their religion is 100% correct and everyone elses is 0% correct

#withadaughterseye #margaretmead #marycatherinebateson #pillastorytime

margaret mead kept a little notebook on her to write down cool ideas people said, and simply by doing so she got people to tell her the most interesting things they could think of in order to get her to whip out that notebook

we can see echoes of this brilliant idea in what will later be known as "fishing for RTs"

#margaretmead #withadaughterseye #pillastorytime

margaret mead kept a little notebook on her to write down cool ideas people said, and simply by doing so she (intentionally? unintentionally?) got people to tell her the most interesting things they could think of in order to get her to whip out that notebook

#margaretmead #withadaughterseye #pillastorytime

mostly i find this interesting because the white western idea of punishment (handcuffs fines court jail) is so hegemonic in our society that we hardly ever get to see an example of a society figuring out a solution that involves none of those things

#withadaughterseye

a fun gregory bateson fact is that in the '50s he revolutionized the western understanding of schizophrenic treatment from "throw them in the looney bin" to "agree with them about their delusions and find a shared ground of reality"

and it appears he did so for the primary purpose of being able to provide intellectual justification for his thought "my mom drove me crazy but i wasnt crazy, my mom just sucked major ass"

#gregorybateson #schizophrenogenesis #doublebind #withadaughterseye

a fun gregory bateson fact is that in the '50s he revolutionized the western understanding of schizophrenic treatment from "throw them in the looney bin" to "agree with them about their delusions and find a shared ground of reality"

and it appears he did so for the primary purpose of being able to provide intellectual justification for his thought "my mom drove me crazy but i wasnt crazy, my mom just sucked major ass"

#gregorybateson #schizophrenogenesis #doublebind #withadaughterseye

#margaretmead #withadaughterseye

#withadaughterseye #margaretmead #marycatherinebateson

#gregorybateson #margaretmead #withadaughterseye

#gregorybateson #margaretmead #withadaughterseye #hornyjail

time to plant a flag since a hashtag search for #gregorybateson turns up exactly one result

if youre looking to talk about #mindandnature #angelsfear #withadaughterseye #blackberrywinter #margaretmead #marycatherinebateson and how their ideas echo through society today hit me the fuck up