“Japanese supernature, imported into contemporary America with animated cartoons, video games, and Yu-Gi-Oh cards, is luxuriant, lighthearted, and, by the standards of monotheism, undisciplined.”
“This is a utopic vision of the superman surrounded by a supernature.”
“How then, in this totally sacralized cosmos, would it still be possible to distinguish between nature and supernature, between the order of the sacred and the order of the profane, between primary cause and secondary causes?”
“But to do nothing, he added, was no better since prolonged contact with the natives would erode the fears of Spanish supernaturality that kept them at bay.”