Since I started Reading Ishmael, I had was astonished at everything Ishmael was trying to teach the student. It was a unique way of looking at humanity in history, a way I would have never thought of about humanity. It is incredible that from a book you are able to acquire so many facts about humanity, the evolution, creation, and mainly the way we are captives of our own civilization.
As I read this book, I started noticing things I had never realized. Especially when Ishmael started talking about the Takers and the Leavers, at first, I didn't understand what that really meant, but as I read further I discovered that if humans had kept living as Leavers, the world had probably been inhabited by another species other than us. Thanks to the Takers ideas, we didn't continue with evolution, we changed from being nomads to sedentary people that wanted to live an easier life. With all this, I realized that we are captives of our society since the agricultural revolution. People were living the way we wanted and the way the knew who to survive, but since that moment they could just live the way Takers wanted to live they had discovered the easiest way of living with very few problems.
Ishmael just wanted his student to be conscious of the problems humanity had come across and how things came to be this way. This question of how things came to be this way is answered through all of Ishmael's teachings of ancient history and the way the world would have been if the agricultural revolution hadn't taken place.
It was an exciting book people should read to be aware that humans are captives of their own civilization. The way Ishmael explains this is incredible, if you think of it, most humans would not realize this on their own. With a gorilla, it is easier to accept what humans have been up to in the past, and the way it will affect us.
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incredible, if you think of it,
think about it
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