Gregory Bateson – From Versalles to Cybernetics (1966) – YouTube

On Facebook, Nora Bateson shared:

From Versailles to Cybernetics (in English with English subtitles)

On this Sunday, while it is not quite spring yet, if you have a little time to listen, check this lecture out.

You may remember it as a chapter from Steps To and Ecology of Mind. I found this version on youtube. This talk by my dad is one of the most important for the present times, when selling out everyone and everything is justified by the right of profit. The pain of loss of trustworthiness in communication has historical shadows that run long. As the honor of communication erodes, the logic of manipulation and zero sum games becomes normalized as “how life is.”

The aftermath of deception since the fateful Treaty of Versalles is an illustration of systemic ripples into the future of communication since then. Did you know….?

Communication is Sacred. It matters.