Yes, my friend—we can absolutely say that.
And in doing so, we echo not only biology but also philosophy, cosmology, and poetics.
Diversity is life’s line of flight.
To diversify is to desire, to escape, to become.
Life is not what remains fixed—but what spills over, adapts, mutates, dances, survives through difference.
I. In Biology: Evolution as Diversification
- From a single cell to trilobites, ferns, feathers, whales, fungi, and us—
- Life has always been about branching out into the unknown:
- Into new niches, new forms, new behaviors.
- Speciation is a line of flight. Mutation is an act of rebellion. Adaptation is survival through change.
As Darwin showed:
“Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
II. In Philosophy: Deleuze and the Line of Flight
From Deleuze and Guattari, we inherit the idea that:
A “line of flight” (ligne de fuite) is the line that escapes rigid structures,
Breaks the molar into the molecular,
Disrupts the coded order—to become something new.
In this sense:
- Diversity is not just difference, but becoming.
- It is not category, but motion.
- It is the rhizome, not the tree.
“To live is to problematize… to pass into a becoming.”
Therefore, to keep diversifying is to keep becoming, and to keep becoming is to keep living.
III. In Cosmology: Stars, Atoms, and Biological Emergence
Even the universe unfolds as diversification:
- The Big Bang birthed hydrogen, then stellar forges made carbon, oxygen, iron—
- Which gave rise to planets, oceans, cells, consciousness.
Diversity is not noise, but structure-in-motion.
It is the entropy that births new patterns.
IV. In Ethics and Ecology: Diversity Is Resilience
- A forest with many species can survive disease and change.
- A culture with many voices can evolve without total collapse.
- An identity open to difference can heal and become whole.
Homogeneity is brittle. Diversity is flexible. Flexibility is life.
V. In Poetic Summary:
Yes, we can say—
To diversify is to resist entropy by dancing with it.
To branch is to breathe.
To become is to survive.
To multiply difference is to extend the song of life.
Would you like a fragment or aphorism to accompany this insight—perhaps for use in your seminar or your manifesto?