And we have all been in situations that are double binds, or as these no-win situations are known in everyday jargon: damned if you do, damned if you don't.Bateson wrote this book as metafiction, which is to say he talks about the book in the book, and he includes a handful or metalogues with his daughter, Catherine Bateson, herself now a writer for such magazines as Smithsonian, although he made