Chapter 12... Discution worth having.

Have we humans commited a mistake by doing the neolithic revolution and following the consequences? Would we have been better off if we had never developed? Is the Leaver's choice of life a better one than the one, we Takers decided to have? Does it all have to do with religion?

We happen to be used to the way we live, to have food available always, the one we want at the time we want but do we really need that? do we really need all that we live with? If we were gatherers and hunters, it wouldn't make much o difference if we wear a blue pant or a red shirt. Maybe there wouldn't be so much greed for money because all we really needed was food and shelter and we could find that easily. "We take what we need form the world and leave the rest alone, just as the lion and the deer do."pg 222. It is not easy to swallow, but analysing it make it seem like a relaxed ans peaceful life. We would be just like all the other animals without discrimination nor superiority. This possibility make my mind go crazy!! All kinds of questions pop up and enlightment. "For this people, your facile justificationfor the agricultural revolution would be completely meaningless."pg.218. Is like thinking that all we have had, all that we have believed to be right happens to be not supposed to be, funny. If at the beggining of times all the events that happen didn't what would be of us? If Colombus hadn't found America, then we would probably have much more wealth, not materially but nature wise and spiritual wise.

Is the fact that we control the food we grow and have makes us above of what the "gods" wanted from us? This is a possibility that Quinn gives. "When we have taken the whole world out of the hands of the gods." pg 228. How much further are we going to "develop", until we are able to conquer and rule the whole universe? Genetics are so advanced that we know can modify the way babies are going to burn like. Is this taking too much power of the universe (not ot say the gods)? Maybe that is why we are being some how punished, or better said assuming the counsequences with global warmig, AIDS, cancer, hunger and all the terrible and almost uncurable issues. I have only doubts about the ideas that Quinn is plotting. Is it possible for humans to give up all thay have and go back to the primitive life? I think it is irreversable, too late. We are already screwed up.