![]() ![]() ![]() The idea though that leaver culture is a viable replacement is, however, just as deeply flawed. ![]() This is of course much like in the old joke where the wise fish meets the young fish and asks “how are you enjoying the water today” to which they reply “what is water?” Second, the current dominant cultural narrative, the one Quinn refers to as takers, is broken in important ways and needs to be replaced. First, culture is an incredibly powerful force that deeply shapes our behavior, while simultaneously being essentially invisible to us. Now before launching into a criticism, there are two arguments in Ishmael that I agree with. The short summary of the core insight is that humans have two cultural narratives: “takers” and “leavers.” Leavers are the (mostly) hunter gatherer cultures who believe that “man belongs to the world” and takers are the agrarian cultures that believe “the world belongs to man.” The book venerates leaver cultures and despises taker cultures. The book consists mostly of a dialogue between a teacher (an astute and telepathic gorilla) and a student (a somewhat befuddled human who slowly learns how to see the world as desired by his teacher). ![]() Well I have read it and now find myself wondering if people endorsing it, including Jack Dorsey, have spend much time thinking about it. Recently someone tweeted at me that I should read Ishmael by David Quinn in response to a piece I posted about the need for unlimited growth in a finite world. ![]()
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