| If a human being can observe the social system that he creates with his behavior, he may dislike it and reject it, and thus become a source of change; but if he can only undergo interactions specified by the social system that he integrates, he cannot be an observer of it and his behavior can only confirm it. Accordingly, all coercive political systems aim, explicitly or implicitly, at reducing creativity and freedom by specifying all social interactions as the best means of suppressing human beings as observers and thus attaining political permanence. To obtain this ultimate goal, however, the typically human mode of creativity must be completely suppressed, and this, as long as there is any capacity to establish . . . consensual domains [such] as the use of language requires, is impossible. | |||
| p. 62 | |||
| Humberto R. Maturana |
"Biology and Language: The Epistemology of Reality" Psychology and Biology of Language and Thought Academic Press, 1978 |
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| Essays in honor of Eric Lenneberg, edited by George A. Miller and Elizabeth Lenneberg. | |||
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