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"One thing I know people will say to me is, 'Are you suggesting we go back to being hunter-gatherers?'" "That of course is an inane idea," Ishmael said. AHow many times must I say this? Your problem isn't agriculture but rather your insane notion that all the food in the world belongs to you. In a very real sense, humans have practiced agriculture right from the beginning. Humans everywhere and everywhen have always encouraged the regrowth of their favorite foodsCand that's all agriculture is. Most surviving Leaver peoples are primarily agriculturalists and not hunter-gatherers at all. The difference between you and them is not that they don't practice agriculture but rather that they don't practice it as a never-ending war waged on the community of life around them. The Leaver life-style isn't about hunting and gathering, it's about letting the rest of the community live--and agriculturalists can do that as well as hunter-gatherers." He paused and shook his head. AWhat I've been at pains to give you is a new paradigm of human history. The Leaver life is not an antiquated thing that is 'back there' somewhere. Your task is not to reach back but to reach forward." Ishmael
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