Ishmael # 7

According to Ishmael, the only way to save the world is to revert back to being leavers. We'd take life out of our hands, and put it back into the hands of the gods. No more exterminating all your competitors, or keeping all the food to yourself, everyone would live out their lives peacefully. I believe that this is one solution. But earlier in the book, it was also stated that the problems could be fixed by gaining even more control over the planet. Taking control of the weather, the animal populations, and all the resources could lead us out of the bad situation that we're in. But who knows? Maybe it would only make things worse. So, I do believe in Ishmael's solution, but I also believe that there are other possibilities.

Ishmael QQC 4

"Why should your people know what story they're enacting as they destroy the world?"
"So they can stop enacting it."

Would the realization that we're enacting a story cause the 'Takers' to change the way they live?

What would happen if everyone learned that their whole lives, all they were doing was living out a story, that ended with the destruction of the world and the human race? Would we yearn to break free of this story? I would hope so. With everyone realizes that we are on the road to destruction, they would be forced to change the way they live, or face extinction.

Ishmael QQC 3

"Consider it. The Takers have a knowledge that enables them to rule the world, and the Leavers lack it."

Why do we need to rule the world?

The 'leaver' people seem to live less destructive lives then the 'takers.' If its because they lack the knowledge needed to rule the world, then we shouldn't have that knowledge in the first place. We fight massive wars, pollute the world with trash and gases, and continue to eradicate different species of animals. If this is what the knowledge to rule the world does, I don't think it's a good thing to have.

Ishmael #4 Interview

For this blog, we were given the assignment to interview anyone we knew with five questions about the state of the world right now. Whether it be about economical problems, world hunger, pollution, or global warming. So I interviewed a friend of mine.

Me: (7:52:43 PM) HEY

Me: (7:53:07 PM) I need to interview someone.

Me: (7:53:12 PM) And I can't find anyone

Friend: (7:53:34 PM) interview the tooth fairy

Friend: (7:53:46 PM) or interview

Friend: (7:53:49 PM) RICHARD NIXON

Me: (7:54:30 PM) You mind doing the interview? I just need to ask 5 questions about global warming and world hunger and whatnot

Friend: (7:54:40 PM) Oh yeah, sure!

Me: (7:54:44 PM) K

Friend: (7:54:45 PM) I'll help ya out

Me: (7:54:49 PM) Thanks

Friend: (7:54:53 PM) no worries

Me: (7:54:59 PM) First off

Me: (7:55:08 PM) What is your opinion on Global Warming

Friend: (7:55:37 PM) aah, it's really not as bad as a lot of people are making it out to be, and from what I've read, not happening for reasons that people say it is.

Friend: (7:56:09 PM) From what I've read, it's being caused by a hotspot in the earth's core (as a heating of the water would melt ice caps a ****load faster than a heating of the air caused by pollution)

Friend: (7:56:25 PM) so as there's nothing we can really DO about it, it's not that big of a concern of mine

Me: (7:57:01 PM) Oh really? Huh. I've never heard about that before now.

Me: (7:57:04 PM) Then again

Me: (7:57:11 PM) I really don't look too much into it

Friend: (7:57:21 PM) A friend of mine sent it to me a while ago

Me: (7:57:25 PM) ah

Friend: (7:57:26 PM) I forgot most of it, save for that

Me: (7:57:41 PM) Ok

Friend: (7:57:42 PM) I wish I could find it again and read it more completely

Me: (7:57:50 PM) Next question

Me: (7:58:04 PM) How would you explain the situation the world is in today?

Friend: (7:58:13 PM) what kind of situation?

Me: (7:58:39 PM) Bad economy, loss of jobs, raising oil prices, etc.

Friend: (7:59:12 PM) economically, dude, it sorta sucks, especially considering the fact that, as much as we complain about it, we're not doing the worst in the world

Friend: (7:59:32 PM) and the fact that everything has to be so much more expensive is dissuading people form buying stuff

Friend: (7:59:42 PM) and if people aren't buying anything, then the economy sinks LOWER

Friend: (8:00:02 PM) so not only is it mostly our fault for the crisis in the first place, but it's our fault that it's not getting any better

Me: (8:00:38 PM) K

Me: (8:02:06 PM) Do you think there's anything you could do to help the environment?

Friend: (8:04:25 PM) so, anything I can do?

Me: (8:04:34 PM) yes

Friend: (8:04:38 PM) Well, EVERYONE can do something. It's only a question of how much

Friend: (8:05:13 PM) I can do my part by picking up this here and there, and being more aware about where I put my trash (don't really need to personally worry about fuel emissions as I'm gonna be walking anywhere anyway)

Friend: (8:05:40 PM) but in the long run, that doesn't really help against things like air/ocean waste, so long as I'm not personally throwing things into the ocean

Friend: (8:06:05 PM) it helps make streets and things look clean, which can,optimistically, inspire others to keep their orginizations clean

Friend: (8:06:38 PM) but for the most part, that responsibility lies most heavially on larger factories and power plants, and governmental orginizations who monitor such things

Me: (8:08:42 PM) Do you think that more environmental friendly power supplies will help lower the pollution that factories and power plants make?

Friend: (8:09:13 PM) it CAN if used properly.

Friend: (8:10:06 PM) Those who control such things just need to make sure that the energy necessary to utilize such power is worth switching power sources in the first place.

Friend: (8:10:42 PM) I read somewhere that, if pure ethanol were to be used as an alternative to gasoline, there would need to be, like, stupidly humongous farms of nothing but corn

Friend: (8:10:50 PM) I'm talking MASSIVE.

Friend: (8:10:55 PM) so it wasn't really worth it in the end

Friend: (8:11:35 PM) if we can find something that both saves energy when used, and doesn't take a bunch of energy to make useable, then it could definately work

Friend: (8:11:38 PM) we just have to find that first

Me: (8:12:03 PM) Ok, one last question

Me: (8:14:08 PM) Do you think that if we need to do something soon about pollution, world hunger, economical issues, etc. and if not, why?

Friend: (8:15:24 PM) well, there's no reason NOT to do anything, as they're all problems. Though, as far as those issues go, the economy takes priority over all, as the strengthening of that will give us the resources to work on the other two issues

Friend: (8:15:50 PM) what we need to do is, as obvious as it is, get people to just buy more stuff

Friend: (8:16:12 PM) which is hard, as prices keep going up because companies need to pay their employees and suppliers

Friend: (8:16:36 PM) and said companies don't have money because nobody's buying stuff because prices are high, blah blah blah, it's a giant circle

Friend: (8:16:59 PM) if we can get the economy back on it's feet, then we can start worrying about other things with more attention focused towards them

Friend: (8:17:12 PM) so yeah, we should focus on those things

Friend: (8:17:20 PM) we just need to prioritize

Me: (8:17:48 PM) And that is it

Me: (8:17:55 PM) Thanks for the awesome answers dude

Friend: (8:18:05 PM) NO WORRIES MAAANG

QQC #2

"In order to become fully human, man had to pull himself out of the slime." (Quinn 75)

What makes someone fully human?

Ishmael is saying that people had to put themselves above the rest of the animals to become the humans that we are today. We needed to stop being primitive, and begin to be civilized. This led to all the things that we have done to help to desecrate the world so far.

Ishmael #2 "Story of Man"

Billions and billions of years after the big bang, the Earth came to be. Many more years later, life evolved, and continued to evolve. Eventually, apes evolved into man, who also continued to evolve from cave people, to the people we see walking around on the streets today. Empires rose and fell, diseases spread across the land, wars were waged between neigbouring regions, but man continued to adapt and change. Eventually, we industrialized, and made things faster and more efficient. We continue to do all of these things to this day.

Ishmael QQC

"I can't shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing that we're being lied to about."

Have you ever gotten the feeling that someone is lying to you about something, and whether it be about something small or important, don't you want to know what it is they're hiding from you?

Everybody has lied sometimes in there lives. It could be a universal lie, like Santa, or the Tooth Fairy. It could be a lie that can get somebody into serious trouble, such as a husband cheating on his wife, or stealing money from someone. It could just be a small lie, for example, if someone doesn't really feel like spending time with someone else, they could just tell them that they have a prior engagement or they're sick. In any case, almost everybody has lied at one point in their lives. Some people will believe them, and others won't. Some are gullible, believing anything, while others might be paranoid, thinking that everyone is out to get them, and that nobody should be trusted. Some will just accept the lie, while others will go to the ends of the earth to find out the truth. Sometimes lies can be good, but, they're usually wrong. The more people that believe in a lie, the further we get from the truth.