"But this victory from which we all derive, Europeans and Americans both, delivers as well a terrible blow to our capacity to feel in harmony with the world, to belong to a preestablished order; its effect is to repress man's communication with the world, to produce the illusion that all communication is interhuman communication; the silence of the gods weighs upon the camp of the Europeans as much as on that of the Indians. By winning on one side, the Europeans lost on the other; by imposing their superiority on the entire country, they destroyed their own capacity to integrate themselves into the world."
Tzvetan Todorov "The Conquest of the Americas and the Question of the Other"
I came across this AMAZING quote while I was working on my midterm for Globalization. I'm starting to grow quite fond of the class: it's wonderful to approach history as a question rather than an answer. Why did things have to happen as they did and could they had been envisioned differently?
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