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Excerpt from 'Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization' (1970), an essay by Gregory Bateson.

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Civilizations have risen and fallen. A new technology for the exploitation of nature or a new technique for the exploitation of other men permits the rise of a civilization. But each civilization, as it reaches the limits of what can be exploited in ( Read more... )

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