person. And this is how it began. Ishmael, is one man's tale of his encounters with a gorilla who

opens his eyes to the destruction around him and leads him on a journey to save the world.

Seeking direction in his life, a young man answers this ad in the personal section and is startled

to find out that his teacher is actually a gorilla named Ishmael, who is uniquely placed to envision

in this young man hope for future compatibility between the world and mankind. Together gorilla and man try to reexamen history from a different perspective, unlike the one that has been pounded into mankind's cultural consciousness. They discover that man's flawed perception of civilization is leading to his cultural demise. This doom is discovered by looking at issues related to mythology, the laws of civilization, and biblical findings.

Ishmael's definition of mythology is simply a single story of how things came to be this

way. One may wonder why even though man knows he is destroying the world by polluting the

oceans and destructing rain forests, he seems perfectly calm when talking about it. Why isnt he

excited about saving the world? Because he has

authority, he had to give up his hunter-gatherer lifestyle and become an agriculturist. The world

But it is this diversity that is being under attack.

thrived in oceans. This bacteria evolved into higher, more complex lifeforms and eventually a

mercy of the world with no control over his enviroment. And in order to gain this control and

mankind is because they believe they are exempt- the biological exemption in the community of

served as Biography and Fine Arts editor at the American Peoples Encyclopedia in Chicago,

followed invariably within that community. Man owes it's existence to this law, because if one

Humankind has always felt superior to the community of life. Man

Some topics in this essay:
, Mother Culture, Fertile Cresent, Daniel Quinn, Finally Takers, Beyond Civilization, Secondly Takers, Visual Education, creation myth, Omaha Nebraska, Tomorrow Fellowship, daniel quinn, community life, myth world, conquer rule, ten thousand ago, knowledge live, civilization applies, tell live, thousand ago, born flawed,