This book, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, from 1992 totally amazed me. Both by what I learned, and by how how I learned it. I’m not going to tell you much about what it said. You must read it yourself! The learner in the story responds to an ad saying “Teacher seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.” Suffice it to say that it’s a powerful lesson about the predicament we’re in. And it complements our understanding of what Susan Sontag told us about the white race being the cancer of human history. But […]
Continue readingIdeas that might chart our course to the new world we all long for: greater sustainability, much more equality locally and globally, in both wealth and power; and more peace and justice – as we start to heal the biosphere.
