"The myth of power, is of course, a very powerful myth; and probably most people in this world more or less believe in it... But it is still epistemological lunacy and leads inevitably to all sorts of disaster... If we continue to operate in terms of a Cartesian dualism of mind versus matter, we shall probably also come to see the world in terms of God versus man; élite versus people; chosen race versus others; nation versus nation and man versus environment. It is doubtful whether a species having both an advanced technology and this strange way of looking at the world can endure..."

Gregory Bateson

Bateson’s quote is not about a dualistic concept. Bateson’s quote is about the duality of a worldview. Such a duality based in relationships of force creates the pathology! This way of thinking reinforces the perceptual splitting of Humankind into complementary antagonistic groups. As he also said. "To want control is the pathology! Not that the person can get control, because of course you never do... Man is only a part of larger systems, and the part can never control the whole...”

Or, in psychological terms, as Jung observed: "To know where the other person makes a mistake is of little value. It only becomes interesting when you know where you make the mistake, for then you can do something about it. What we can improve in others is of doubtful utility as a rule, if, indeed, it has any effect at all."