Analysis Of Ishmael, By Daniel Quinn

“Among the people of our culture, which want to destroy the world?” “Which want to destroy it? As far as I know, no one specifically wants to destroy the world.” “And yet you do destroy it, each of you. Each of you contribute daily to the destruction of the world.” (Quinn, pp. 25). Through the composition of Daniel Quinn, “Ishmael”, it is clearly illustrated that through the daily actions and practices of the humankind, humans are irresponsibly exploiting the supplies that mother nature had been providing. From his experience from being ambushed out of the jungle, kept in a zoo in 1930’s, bought and taken care of in a private home by Mr. Sokolow and being kept in a menagerie, the truth of man destroying the world was in depth revealed through
His book also had some weaknesses which would be discussed in this essay. “The world was made for man” this is the premise Quinn sets. He claims that in a civilized world, man is captive, which prompts them to endanger their life and the life of other species which is slowly destroying the world. Ishmael starts of by asking the narrator to address the mythology of man's culture. The narrator disagrees that modern civilization and his culture is not based on myth, but only a specific scientific account of origin. Due to this perspective, Ishmael categorized a civilized society as “Taker” and the primitive society are categorized as “leaver”. Quinn characterized the takers has been “cultural amnesiacs” which has been part of mother culture since the creation
Whatever produce man deserves they can get it at any store, be it crops we have grown, meats from animals we breed, or chemicals needed to produce pills. We are untouchable, and we can grow and provide for ourselves without limits, we believe there is no termination to the amount of intelligence, productivity and self-advancement that can be fulfilled. In recent years, evidence has shown that man's actions towards the environment is critical. First came global warming due to industrial activities that our modern civilization depends upon, then came species that are endangered or rare due to man having total control of land. Evidently, man’s culture is currently affecting the nature we live in, the current personification of humanity, which is currently at flaw, but man believe to be successful comes with a strand attached. We can choose to stay on the same path we are currently in until the world is destroyed. Most of us are aware of the effects industrialization has on the planet but part of humanity has given up hope that the world we live in would ever be saved and we lost interest in