The limits of imagination

~The Western mind assumes that it can readily imagine anything. Its collective knowledge and experience have been fed by a millennium of exploration, global empires and scientific breakthroughs. Everything has been or can be reduced intellectually toa relative state. What is the North but a reflection of the South? A progress from hot to cold, from jungle to snow and ice, with, always, the West's vision of itself at the centre~

~John Ralston Saul