Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After a… - Gregory Bateson

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Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man "in power" depends on receiving information all the time from outside. He responds to that information just as much as he "causes" things to happen...it is an interaction, and not a lineal situation.

Gregory Bateson

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Gregory Bateson (May 9, 1904 – July 4, 1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. He was married to Margaret Mead.

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Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man "in power" depends on receiving information all the time from outside. He resp… - Gregory Bateson

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