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Essay / Ishmael by Daniel Quinn - Paradigms of Yesterday , and after reading Daniel Quinn's masterpiece, Ishmael, one might well feel that Quinn echoes such sentiments. Few books are as relevant in this ever-changing technological world as Ishmael. In the beginning, according to Ishmael, God created man to live in peace on Earth, supported by the fruitful bounties of the Earth and subject to God's control. That is, until man ate from the tree of good and evil in the Garden of Eden and conveniently forgot all the rules that God had so graciously placed before him. From that moment on, the Caucasian race, full of vanity and pride at having seen so clearly what was good on Earth and what was not, decided to submit the Earth to its will. It was during this turn of events that totalitarian agriculture was born. And God just shook his head. Fortunately, there are still creatures on Earth ready to teach man his roots, and at the same time save him from his self-destructive impulses. Enter Ishmael, a gorilla with a conscience. Yes, a gorilla. Locked up and controlled by man, Ishmael developed an awareness of his situation and that of man. Realizing that his destiny is linked to that of man, he decides to save man from himself. Placing an ad in the newspapers, Ishmael finds a willing if disillusioned student and presents him with an education program guaranteed to save the world. We wonder if the sign in Ishmael's office says the truth: "With the disappearance of the gorillas, will man survive?" » The student discovers that everything he has learned about history is a lie, created two thousand years ago by men hungry for power and determined to rule the world. ...... middle of paper ...... If we do this, we end up fragmenting the entire food chain. From an ecological perspective, the Takers' way of life was doomed from the start. However, the reader experiences a sense of pleasure when Quinn points out that many primitive societies possess great wisdom that they can teach the world about how to live in a natural environment. autonomous society. Of course, new ideas will mean that yesterday's paradigms will have to be abandoned. However, if innovative solutions to today's ecological problems can be found and the wisdom of the ages is preserved, man has a chance of not committing cultural suicide. In trying to control all other forms of life on the planet, man has exceeded his limits. Ultimately, man must realize that he is interconnected to all other life forms on Earth. Consider for a moment the reverse of Ishmael’s office sign. "With the disappearance of man, will the gorillas survive?"
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