Chapter 12...Is that all?

Once I started watching a movie that was called Apocalipto. I was not able to finish it because of the bloody and horrible scenes. It was about the life of the Aztecs or Mayas, I don't remeber well, their beliefs and society. They were brutal, they killed each other for no good reason. Quinn states that the Leavers were, as i understood, people from other cultures, indians just like Aztexs and Mayas. He says that the Leavers let the world live peacefully and took only what they needed. According to Apocalipto, it was the contrary. I think that by the Leavers, Quinn is refering to the animals because in the study of Ancient History, since the first civilization of Mesapotamia their goal was to conquer, to rule, and sacrified each other in wars for power. The role model we should follow is defenitly the way animals live, they are in the hands of the gods. "Well, they tend to led the people around them live the way they want to live." pg.236. Most of us think that we do that, the truth is that we are being obligated to live the way that some have decided is the right and only way we ought to live.

The prison of which Ishmael talks is quite interensting. I have often thought that our society is like a prison. We are supposed to act in a certain way, dress in a certain way, think in a certain way, we are convinced that we are free when the truth is that we are not. "The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison." Pg. 251. We are inprisoned by our one greed, ambition and egocentrism. "But it should be noted that what is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself." pg. 252/253. WE can't keep on passing on the rule within ourselves but just give the power up, lend it to the universe itself that is better than is in that. Difficult it is for the idea to go around the world. I really don't belive it could be possibe, it is an extreme change to history and humanity. This leads to to think, what would be of us in a thousand years?