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Mother has just created a classic double bind, saying yes and no to her daughter at the same time. Most parents use such paradoxical commands occasionally because they are unable to resolve their conflicting feelings. That familiar behavior may seem harmless. But according to a branch of psychiatry known as family therapy, repeated double binding is ordinarily found in families that produce schizophrenics...
...those who plunge into debt over their heads. By most estimates they constitute no more than 5% of all credit buyers, but their numbers seem to be growing. Only a handful are true "crediholics"-people who get some kind of excitement about always being in debt and in a bind about paying bills. Most simply yield to the temptation to overspend...
...Haley's story of his family's passage from an ancestral home in Africa to slavery in America and, finally, to freedom. Along the way, Americans of both races discovered that they share a common heritage, however brutal; that the ties that link them to their ancestors also bind them to each other. Thus, with the final episode, Roots was no longer just a bestselling book and a boffo TV production but a social phenomenon, a potentially important bench mark in U.S. race relations...
...that marked the nation's grandeur in its second century - and are destined to mark the century now to come - were to be even newer than visitors to the 1876 exposition could imagine. These came not from bigness but from a new kind of community. New ties would bind Americans together, would bind Americans to the larger world and would bind the world to America. I call this community the Republic of Technology...
...Problems of inflation, devaluation and petrodollars intimately bind our economy and that of other nations into a common system. We are very much, all of us, involved in these problems and have to work on them together. When a country devalues its currency purely to solve a domestic economic problem, it's another way of practicing protectionism. One country follows another, and pretty soon we are all in the soup...