Gregory Bateson Variations Quotes

“Most binds involve metaphors, emotions, feelings, human qualities. Thus, the binds mostly prompt us to be rational, push us to decide one way or another, to declare when something is wrong or good; this reflexive spark is generated by a bind. Reasoning is a secondary process, and exists only to reinforce the initial bind.”
― Ştefan Serşeniuc, Gregory Bateson Variations: A View of Complex Ideas: Binds, Double Binds, Schismogenesis, Second- and Third-Order Cybernetics, René Girard, and More