While reading the first chapter of Ishmael, some of the thoughts, points and questions I had were:
1) What does "With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla" mean?
2) I felt bad for the tiger in the zoo Ishmael used as an example.
3) Even if we don't want to, each one of us is destroying the world
4) If we're aware that we're destroying the world, then why hasn't it stopped? You'd think that people would see that dead earth means dead people and then do something about it
5) "You're captives of a civilizations system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live"....."So. You are captives-and have made a captive of the world itself." wow. How do we escape from this "captivity"?
6) "I think there are many among you who would be glad to release the world from captivity" "...they're unable to find the bars of the cage." That makes sense.
6) The story of Kurt and Hans was interesting. It gave me another view of what Ishmael was talking about with humans being captive and taking the world captive, especially in the ending when Kurt says he has the feeling that they're being lied to.
7) Ishmael said "If you alone found out what the lie was, then your'e probably right-it would make no great difference. But if you all found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed." I wonder what the lie is?
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