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Events involving Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael, Story of B, My Ishmael, Providence and Beyond Civilization.| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
Events involving Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael, Story of B, My Ishmael, Providence and Beyond Civilization.| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
For general information about the dramatic rights to Ishmael, see question number 750. In short, one would need permission to publish a dramatic version of Ishmael---for schools or for theaters, it matters not---and this permission is not readily available. On the other hand, Time Warner (which owns the dramatic rights to Ishmael) would not [...] The post Has anyone attempted to a stage play of <i>Ishmael</i> suitable for schools? I think it would be a great way to reach kids, given a sensiti...| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
If people went on thinking the way people thought in the Middle Ages, there would have been no Renaissance---no scientific revolution, no industrial revolution. But no one living in the thirteenth century (no matter how bright) could have described how people would be thinking in fifteenth century. The same sort of thing is true [...] The post In your books you stress the idea that the Taker way is unsustainable because our style of agriculture breaks the law of life. Then in <i>Beyond Civili...| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
To answer your question, I have to consult not only what I think about mental illness but what animists around the world think about it. The term "mental illness" has no correlate among animist peoples (and it's nowadays considered an expression of dubious usefulness and validity among psychologists and philosophers). Animists certainly share the [...] The post What do you as an animist think about mental illness? I understand that you feel that we should work with our “naturally human” s...| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
Making a difference in your area and educating anyone willing to listen are two very important ways of changing things for the better. Your idea that the system is set up in such a way that the common man either plays along or dies in squalor seems to me to be a great oversimplification. [...] The post Your books and my own experience have left me profoundly disillusioned with the world and what’s happening here in general. I’ve been coping with this by actually making a difference in my ...| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
Advocates of a resource-based economy very probably have the idea that this economy is the brainchild of Jacque Fresco. This is a bit like crediting the invention of the wheel to Henry Ford. Humans evolved with a distinctly human social organization, the tribe, and with a distinctly tribal economy, a resource-based economy. Both the [...] The post What is your take on Jacque Fresco and his work, especially his proposal of a resource-based economy? appeared first on Ishmael.org, the work & phi...| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
Totalitarian Agriculture is not a farming technique (or a collection of farming techniques). Totalitarian Agriculture is agriculture as practiced by people who believe and base their agricultural policies on the belief: (1) that all of the world's food belongs to them, (2) that human food can be denied to all other species by any [...] The post I can’t agree with your reply <a href="/q757">#757</a>, where you say that Totalitarian Agriculture produces food the same way as any other form of ...| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
Totalitarian Agriculture produces food in the same way as any other form of agriculture; that is, a seed planted by a practitioner of Totalitarian Agriculture grows in exactly the same way as a seed planted by a practitioner of any other form of agriculture. In other words, Totalitarian Agriculture is a way of handling [...] The post In the response <a href="/q551">#551</a>, you wrote: “I’ve never said that Leavers and Takers can be distinguished by the way they get their food. They can b...| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
No, I wouldn't endorse it, but not just on humanitarian grounds. Your friend's idea doesn't fully take in the process by which ours became an "ever-growing planet-killing population." The populations of the millions of species on this planet (including our own until the birth of our culture) are all regulated by a very simple [...] The post A while ago a friend of mine and I spent some time discussing our ever-growing planet-killing population. We parted as perplexed as before, but he continu...| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
I'm afraid I can't quite agree, because our societal system isn't the only one in operation here. Nonhuman societies don't have "population limits" as such. Their populations are controlled by a feedback relationship with their food supply. (As their population increases, their food supply diminishes. As their food supply diminishes, their population diminishes; as [...] The post No societal system can be sustainable without population limits. I assume you agree. appeared first on Ishmael.org...| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
On 1/11/13 the national academy of sciences released a draft report on climate change that’s open to public comment for three months. This could be a good time for Ishmael.org to inform people about this. What I found interesting was there policy on agriculture. Chapter 6 page 228 line 1 specifically talks about efficiency in increasing agriculture production in climate change. How can it be that they do not see the danger of increasing food production. Is it greed? Or they just don’t know?| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
Ishmael the novel. Ishmael teaches that which all humans need to learn - must learn - if our species, and the rest of life on Earth is to survive.| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
