Links to Epistemology

Epistemology – How We Know and Construct Knowledge

These links emphasize Gregory Bateson’s view of epistemology as a personal construction of knowledge.

Gregory Bateson: Epistemology, Language, Play and the Double Bind — by Edmond Wright
Gregory Bateson on Epistemology — audio stream and download of a 42-minute talk by Gregory Bateson
Revisiting Angels Fear: Recursion, Ecology and Aesthetics — Part 1 — by Peter Harries-Jones
Revisiting Angels Fear: Recursion, Ecology and Aesthetics — Part 2 — by Peter Harries-Jones

As ecosystems are stressed and careen towards collapse…
As the world population increases beyond the limits of capacity…
As communities split apart and are consumed by fear and hatred…
As nations come apart at the seams or barely hang on to some semblance of coherence and sanity…
As cultures lose their identities, but are feared and hated anyway…
As families disintegrate and disperse around the globe…
As religions mesmerize the masses and are lost in the quest for power and money…
As corporations plan their take-over, while abusing their workers…
As politicians seem to have lost all sense of what it means to govern…
As tyrannical despots take over positions of power…
As the use of nuclear weapons moves from past memories to distinct possibilities…
As people lose their senses of empathy, compassion, integrity, and generosity…

We approach a POINT…
A point around which we find ourselves spinning.
We may spin out of control towards total self-destruction.
Or… we may spin into new ways of thinking and relating.

So far, schools and their corporate over-lords have been complicit in the movement toward total collapse.
But, if there is to be any hope, schools must step up and take the lead.

Schools must prepare our children to create new ways to live together and within our ecosystems.
Schools must prepare our children to collaborate and think in more complex and creative ways.
Schools must help children learn to survive and thrive as ecosystems collapse or change.
Our children are the generation that will face the brunt of all that humanity has done wrong.