I would like to share with you a beautiful quote a bit long from the ethnologist
Philippe Descola, taken from the conclusion of his book "
The composition of the worlds, an ode to diversity. He proposes to go beyond the strict utilitarian vision that intends to defend the plurality of cultures in the name of a certain tactical efficiency and proclaims:
What we need to defend is what we really care about, that is diversity as a value in itself, because living in a way where life forms, ways of thinking, languages , the ways of connecting to the world, infinitely vary, is a source of joy and a challenge for the laziness of the spirit, because this diversity brings to us the surprise and the wonder, the possibility to make of our life a succession of little happiness suspended to the threads of chance. A monotonous and monochromatic world, with no surprises or unlikely encounters, nothing new to catch the eye, the ear or curiosity, a world without diversity is a nightmare. I can not help but think that the decrease in the diversity of production methods that industrial standardization of the early twentieth century is responsible has been one of the ferments of totalitarian regimes, par excellence models of the rejection of diversity and diversity. Consistency and Modes of Being. Chaplin understood this when he went on The Dictator after Modern Times.
It is less that emphasizes the last sentence ...