List examples of denying competitors any food any where.

Think about the mindset involved? The lack of understanding of the symbiotic nature of all life.

What biological mechanism must be perfected in order to keep Takers so self aggrandizing?

What are examples of the systematic destruction of competitors’ food?

Why is this important?

“I mean that in the absence of food, baboons will organize themselves to find a meal, but in the absence of leopards they will never organize themselves to find a leopard. In other words, it’s as you say: when animals go hunting—even extremely aggressive animals like baboons—it’s to obtain food, not to exterminate competitors or even animals that prey on them.” “Yes, I see what you’re getting at now.” “And how can you be sure this law is invariably followed? I mean, aside from the fact that competitors are never seen to be exterminating each other, in what you call the wild.” “If it weren’t invariably followed, then, as you say, things would not have come to be this way. If competitors hunted each other down just to make them dead, then there would be no competitors. There would simply be one species at each level of competition: the strongest.”

Think of how we fall into this way of being. Are we conditioned? Is it our nature? Can we see from within our prison?

“Okay, but I can see that it gives me another guide. I now have three: what makes their society work well, what they never do, and what he did that they never do.”

How is this metaphor analogous?

What is the key takeaway?

How did you learn how to live?

Yet, we know how we live is destructive to our own survival. Why don’t we know how to live in a way that doesn’t ensure our destruction?

So here we are rushing headlong into catastrophe and there is nothing to be done – so we watch, we recycle our cans and bottles, and drive more economic vehicles, but the story remains the same as the ocean fills with plastic in the air fills with carbon.

Why do we believe we were born flawed?

What is Quinn’s (Ishmael’s) understanding of why we believe we’re born flawed?

“Only one thing can save us. We have to increase our mastery of the world. All this damage has come about through our conquest of the world, but we have to go on conquering it until our rule is absolute. Then, when we’re in complete control, everything will be fine. We’ll have fusion power. No pollution. We’ll turn the rain on and off. We’ll grow a bushel of wheat in a square centimeter. We’ll turn the oceans into farms. We’ll control the weather—no more hurricanes, no more tornadoes, no more droughts, no more untimely frosts. We’ll make the clouds release their water over the land instead of dumping it uselessly into the oceans. All the life processes of this planet will be where they belong—where the gods meant them to be—in our hands. And we’ll manipulate them the way a programmer manipulates a computer.”

The central event is?

The middle of the myth is? What is humanity’s purpose?