Come, then, comrades, the European game has finally ended; we must find something different. We today can do everything, so long as we do not imitate Europe, so long as we are not obsessed by the desire to catch up with Europe. Europe now lives at such, a mad, reckless pace that she has shaken off all guidance and all reason, and she is running headlong into the abyss; we should do well to avoid it with all possible speed. Yes it is very true that we need a model, and that we want blueprints and examples. For many among us the European model is the most inspiring. ...... European achievements, European techniques and the European style ought no longer to tempt us and throw us off our balance. ........ Let us decide not to imitate Europe; let us combine our muscles and our brain s in a new direction. Let us try to create the whole man, whom Europe has been incapable of bringing to triumphant birth. Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions. - Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of The Earth. As translated by Jean-Paul Sartre
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:27:37 +0000
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