“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. …
You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That'swhat's at stake, isn't it? — your captivity and the captivity of the world.There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that putsthem at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world.Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe,and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.”
~ Daniel Quinn,Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
