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The novel “Ishmael” is by Daniel Quinn that begins with a disappointed and miserable guy that is in search of an extraordinary teacher. He wants someone to show him what life is all about. And so he finds Ishmael, a teacher, who turns out to be a large telepathic gorilla of extraordinary intelligence. In the book the conversations between Ishmael consist of human culture, beginning with the agricultural revolution and how things got to be this way. Ishmael shows the narrator how our society doesn’t work: the reasoning that there is only one right way to live, and that way is with humans conquering the planet. Daniel Quinn points out that many other cultures, most particularly those who have a ethnic lifestyle, work, in that they do not destroy their resources, have no need for crime control or other programs, and do not have population problems. He insists that our culture is not based on humans being human; it is based on humans being gods and trying to control the world.

Ishmael has a habit of raising questions and ideas. The gorilla Ishmael not only brought out thoughts and questions in the narrator, he brought up a lot of questions and ideas in Coast to Coast 2000. Ishmael took us all aback. Although many of us questioned some of Daniel Quinn's minor points, we all agreed on one of his main points: that there is no one right way to live. The Bushmen of Africa are living in a way that is just as right and works just as well as ours, and possibly even better, as they are capable of living without destroying everything in their paths. These "Leaver" cultures are in no way inferior to ours though we consider them to be uncivilized.

In fact, Ishmael says that it is "Taker" civilization itself, the hierarchical structure that locks up food and spreads through the idea that people must live the same way that is actually inferior. Why? To put it simply, we grow more food than we need, which causes our population somewhere on the Earth to increase. Now...