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The north american system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the north american mothers and wives. a person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.

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The North American System Only Wants To

Octavio Paz

The north american system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the north american mothers and wives. a person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.

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Exercise your imagination muscle! how many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? write down your answers. but don't write them in this book. grab a separate sheet of paper. i didn't spend two and a half weeks writing a book just so you could mark up the pages with your silly ideas for things you can do with a flowerpot. when it comes down to it, what's wrong with a flowerpot not being a flowerpot? why is nothing ever good enough for you?

Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. but we do not have that luxury any more. the world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. and we can no longer afford the guilt we feel at not being our mothers. we cannot afford any guilt that pulls us back to the past. we have to grow up, whether we want to or not. we have to stop blaming men and mothers and seize every second of our lives with passion. we can no longer afford to waste our creativity. we cannot afford spiritual laziness.

Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. when one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the holy spirit. the worst defect in talking is talking too much. hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.

We need money to scale up the services that bring medicine to mothers. the united states government's doing that. there's a global fund that's providing money. mothers2mothers provides for mothers who come in who don't have education, who don't have support. mothers2mothers employs mothers with hiv, mothers who were patients recently in the very same facilities. we take those mothers who were patients who've had their babies, we bring them back, we train them, we pay them, to be health care professionals.

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the north american cultural world. these are well known to all. but these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the usa is perpetrating on the planet.

Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. you don't have to do drugs. i think our sunday schools should be turned into black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like hebrew schools for jewish people, or my asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn chinese or korean.

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