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Derived from a 2005 Dissertation by Richard Currie Smith Ph.D. , Ecological Anthropologist

The Emergence of Ecological Restoration Through Perceptual Re-Framing: Applying Gregory Bateson's Living Systems Approach to the Minnesota River Basin Environmental Dilemma

"There seems to be something like a Gresham’s law of cultural evolution according to which the oversimplified ideas will always displace the sophisticated and the vulgar and the hateful will always displace the beautiful. And yet the beautiful persists."          Gregory Bateson (19792002:5)