The teacher will tell him the story of how the world has come to be this way but that he will never look at life the same way. He gives an example to help the man understand his own misconceptions of his own dominance of the world. Only the ocean exists to the jellyfish that has no competitors in his example and they are on the top of the food chain and the world is the bowl that hold their existence. This is how man feels, that the world is made for him, and all of mankind is aware of this truth. Ishmael now tells him that man is destroying the world because he makes it different from the way it naturally is. In the end man will control all of the earth, the weather, etc. Then move into the universe until they have conquered all they can. Mans major flaw is that he doesn’t know how he ought to live.

We don’t care what went on in the past before us we are always looking forward, trying to advance our culture to better the world and the comforts we hold dear to us. We are unable to see our world in a cyclical manor anymore, of the seasons and time repeating over and over again. We see time now on a time line going only forward. Our ancestors before us did not see life this way, the seasons told them what was going on in the world. We can no longer remember any farther back beyond our grandparents, if we never experienced or have tangible evidence of something it does not apply to us. We look at religion the same way, we believe in evolution not in a god that provided everything for us. And the people who do believe in god see us as better than the animals that are below us, and that is why we are justified in being able to control there lives, because we need to be in control of our own destinies not god or Mother Culture.

“If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using there terms, it would go something like this: ‘The Leavers were chapter one of human history-a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers, it’s true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils-people living in the past, people who just don’t realize that their chapter of human history is over.’ ”(Quinn 42)

Mother Culture’s story of “how things came to be this way” is,

Without the knowledge of good and evil you can not rule the world, but we justify having this knowledge and still doing what we are doing by saying that we are above all other species on this planet. We must kill other animals for ourselves alone to prosper; but we justify our actions by passing laws on the treatment of animals so we are not cruel, whenever we can. The underlying fact about having the knowledge of good and evil is that you didn’t know there was a difference between the two, we all assume that it would be good but in actuality you don’t know this. You have to have evil to have good in this world. People may believe that the garden of eaden was perfect and everything in it was good. But there was evil in it but the people who lived in it couldn’t distinguish between the temptation of the snake. So man ate from the forbidden tree and saw that he was naked and that there was wrong. Or is it that there was always evil in the garden but it took this knowledge to recognize it. You can not have a world with out evil. If you have a world with only good and you have no idea of wrong, how do you know that your world is not completely wrong?

We have grown up being told this story our whole lives and we know of no other because this is what we have been taught by out parents and teachers our entire lives.

The takers do not think that it is wrong that they ate from the tree of knowledge because it was the best piece of knowledge that they have. The takers believe they should have the same knowledge as the gods and will never give it up and so they will destroy the world. The takers told the leavers they had to no longer hunt and gather, being an agriculturist is our punishment from eating the tree of knowledge. If we didn’t we would have had food provided to us

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