Daniel Quinn

Daniel Quinn introduces us to the idea of how our civilized society has been born from the ground up, making that the reason we stand here now. We are prone to making mistakes, so we are in need of someone who can supply us answers, for the bettering of mankind. Humans have lived on their earth from the beginning of time, making the earth’s progress in the hands of man. A culture is defined as people living the same story that we man see as life. We believe this story is what considered “normal or real” but in fact it is destroying humanity. The only way for humans to exist is by breaking free from this story.
The mistakes we make as humans only prove to used that we are human. Thomas Malthus introduces to us positive and negative checks. Positive checks are war, disease, disaster, and famine. He also mentions that parent’s who are aware that they are poor and unable to provide for a child, are less likely to have a child. Negative checks consist of abstaining, marring at a later age, birth control, and homosexuality. Malthus thought that positive checks increase death, which stops over population and decreases the excessive demand in food. Both positive and negative are seen in everyday life and play a large role in the modern society because they formulated together keep our society in balance. People need food to exist. Our population is at a constant increase; the earth needs to provide enough food to suit the demand of a growing population. In todays modern world the farmers plant and grow the food, while the everyday people go to the store, buy the food and thrive off the food they consume. The problem is, is that there are still people suffering from starvation all over the world, and an organized system to deal with starvation has yet to be invented. This is where Daniel Quinn introduces the takers, and the leavers. He mention’s that "The premise of the Taker story is the world belongs to man...The premise of the Leaver story is man belongs to the