{"id":1326,"date":"2017-04-08T18:52:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T18:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2017-04-08T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T21:12:00","slug":"an-excerpt-from-octavio-pazs-mexico-and-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=1326","title":{"rendered":"An excerpt from Octavio Paz’s \u201cMexico and the United States\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>‘Today, the United States faces very powerful enemies, but the mortal danger comes from within: not from Moscow but from that mixture of arrogance and opportunism, blindness and short-term Machiavellianism, volubility and stubbornness which has characterized its foreign policies during recent years and which remind us in an odd way of the Athenian state in its quarrel with Sparta. To conquer its enemies, the United States must first conquer itself \u2014 return to its origins. Not to repeat them but to rectify them: the \u201cothers\u201d \u2014 the minorities inside as well as the marginal countries and nations outside \u2014 do exist. Not only do we \u201cothers\u201d make up the majority of the human race, but also each marginal society, poor though it may be, represents a unique and precious version of mankind. If the United States is to recover fortitude and lucidity, it must recover itself, and to recover itself it must recover the \u201cothers\u201d \u2014 the outcasts of the Western World.’<\/p>\n

Octavio Paz, ‘Mexico and the United States,’ first published in the New Yorker<\/em> of 17 September 1979.<\/p>\n

Leer en el idioma original:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00abHoy los Estados Unidos se enfrentan a enemigos muy poderosos pero el peligro mortal no est\u00e1 fuera sino dentro: no es Mosc\u00fa sino esa mezcla de arrogancia y oportunismo, ceguera y maquiavelismo a corto plazo, volubilidad y terquedad, que ha caracterizado a su pol\u00edtica exterior en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os y que recuerda extra\u00f1amente a la del Estado ateniense en su disputa con Esparta. Para vencer a sus enemigos, los Estados Unidos tienen primero que vencerse a s\u00ed mismos: regresar a sus or\u00edgenes. Pero no para repetirlos sino para rectificarlos: el otro<\/em> y los otros \u2014las minor\u00edas del interior tanto como los pueblos y naciones marginales del exterior\u2014 existen. No s\u00f3lo somos la mayor\u00eda de la especia sino que cada sociedad marginal, por m\u00e1s pobre que sea, representa una versi\u00f3n \u00fanica y preciosa de la humanidad. Si los Estados Unidos han de recobrar la entereza y la lucidez, tienen que recobrarse a s\u00ed mismos y para recobrarse a s\u00ed mismos tienen que recobrar a los otros<\/em>: a los excluidos del Occidente.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Today, the United States faces very powerful enemies, but the mortal danger comes from within: not from Moscow but from that mixture of arrogance and opportunism, blindness and short-term Machiavellianism, volubility and stubbornness which has characterized its foreign policies during recent years and which remind us in an odd way of the Athenian state in … <\/p>\n

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