Ronald May - EFP

Octavio Paz: The Labirinth ofSolitudeWhat sets world into motion is theinterplay of differences, their attractionsand repulsions. Life is plurality, death isuniformity. By supressing differences anpecularities, by eliminating differentcivilizations and cultures, progressweakens life and favors death. The idealof a single civilization for everyone,implicit in the cult of progress andtechnique, impoverishes and multiatesus. Every view of the world that becomesextinct, every culture that disappears,diminisches a possibility of life.