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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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Daniel Quinn
“Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global catastrophe.”
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

Daniel Quinn
“We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world
because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.”
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

Daniel Quinn
“[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.”
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

Daniel Quinn
“Guess what? The Nazis didn't lose the war after all. They won it and flourished. They took over the world and wiped out every last Jew, every last Gypsy, black, East Indian, and American Indian. Then, when they were finished with that, they wiped out the Russians and the Poles and the Bohemians and the Moravians and the Bulgarians and the Serbians and the Croatians--all the Slavs. Then they started in on the Polynesians and the Koreans and the Chinese and the Japanese--all the peoples of Asia. This took a long, long time, but when it was all over, everyone in the world was one hundred percent Aryan, and they were all very, very happy. Naturally the textbooks used in the schools no longer mentioned any race but the Aryan or any language but German or any religion but Hitlerism or any political system but National Socialism. There would have been no point. After a few generations of that, no one could have put anything different into the textbooks even if they'd wanted to, because they didn't know anything different. But one day, two young students were conversing at the University of New Heidelberg in Tokyo. Both were handsome in the usual Aryan way, but one of them looked vaguely worried and unhappy. That was Kurt. His friend said, "What's wrong, Kurt? Why are you always moping around like this?" Kurt said, "I'll tell you, Hans. There is something that's troubling me--and troubling me deeply." His friend asked what it was. "It's this," Kurt said. "I cannot shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing that we're being lied to about." And that's how the paper ended.'
Ishmael nodded thoughtfully. 'And what did your teacher think of that?'
'He wanted to know if I had the same crazy feeling as Kurt. When I said I did, he wanted to know what I thought we were being lied to about. I said, 'How could I know? I'm no better off than Kurt.”
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

Daniel Quinn
“The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.”
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

Daniel Quinn
“There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.”
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit


Reading Progress

October 13, 2009 – Shelved
January 18, 2016 –
page 20
7.52%
February 2, 2016 –
page 90
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February 23, 2016 –
page 150
56.39%
Started Reading
March 16, 2016 – Finished Reading

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