Befuddled adults, befuddled children

Instead of giving our children clear and explicit explanations of the game-rules of the community, we befuddle them hopelessly because we—as adults—were once so befuddled, and, remaining so, do not understand the game we are playing. A double-bind game is a game with self-contradictory rules, a game doomed to perpetual self-frustration—like

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