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People who are reluctant to spend their lives building some pharaoh's pyramid all have a common need, but the need is felt most acutely by the young, who are the real pack-animals of the operation. Beyond Civilization

New book from Daniel Quinn! If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways "One of the most troublesome questions I've been asked--and it's been asked hundreds of times--is: 'Where do these strange ideas of yours come from?' In the beginning, I thought it was just the usual where-do-you-get-your-ideas? question that all authors receive. My readers soon set me straight. Read more ... Excerpt 1 Excerpt 2 Excerpt 3

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1. I've just recently started THE STORY OF B and was wondering what...
   
2. Why doesn't the narrator of Ishmael have a name?
   
3. Why is Ishmael's pupil a man rather than a woman?
   
4. Why is Ishmael's pupil so dumb?
   
5. Why did you make Ishmael a gorilla?

   
   

6. Why is Ishmael seated behind a pane of glass at the beginning?
   
7. What's the meaning of the koan on Ishmael's poster? Apparently, t...
   
8. How did Ishmael get himself installed in an office building? How...
   
9. Why the name Ishmael?
   
10. Tell me if I'm right. You pretty much had to pull your punches wh...
    
11. How did you come to choose the name Laurentian for Jared's order?
    
12. You say that birth control is not the answer ­- that it can't be...
    
13. I object to B claiming to be the Antichrist. I agree with much of...
    
14. Everyone talks about how difficult it is to become a Leaver, but...
    
15. Ishmael says "Among Leavers, crime, mental illness, suicide, and...
    
16. Weren't various hallucinogens used by "wise men" in order to have...
    
17. What about the Leaver agriculturalists of Easter Island, who made...
    
18. Ishmael portrays Man as living at peace with the world during the...
    
19. Archaeologists have found vast kills of bison that apparently wer...
    
20. I don't see how we can stand by and let the starving people of Af...
    
21. I've always thought that ALL agriculture is basically harmful, so...
    
22. Wasn't agriculture developed as a response to famine?
    
23. Why do you speak of gods rather than God?
    
24. It is quite obvious that you have contempt for religion, Christia...
    
25. As a long time Tibetan Buddhist, I have a problem with you tarrin...
    
26. Why don't Ishmael and the narrator observe politically correct ru...
    
27. Why "Mother" Culture?
    
28. Don't we need to abandon most technology and agriculture in order...
    
29. Some of my friends disagree with Ishmael's comments about prophet...
    
30. Tell me if I am understanding this point correctly: Ishmael tells...
    
31. Is Ishmael saying we should give up agriculture?
    
32. At what point does a Leaver society become a Taker society? Is it...
    
33. Don't we need to abandon technology if we're going to save the wo...
    
34. Doesn't it seem like the Hebrew prophets were trying to call thei...
    
35. Would we be able to integrate our knowledge of the sciences and s...
    
36. I get the impression from reading Ishmael that it is not possible...
    
37. What's the meaning of the koan on Ishmael's poster? Apparently, t...
    
38. After reading THE STORY OF B, I understand that we can stop popul...
    
39. How close are we to global revolution? Do you hear from many peop...
    
40. What career path should someone choose who wants to have a positi...
    
41. My chosen profession has begun to look like "part of the problem"...
    
42. I want to inflict as little harm as possible during my life on th...
    
43. Considering the Taker abominations of mass breeding and inhumane...
    
44. We're reading Ishmael in the context of a business ethics class a...
    
45. Ishmael makes it very clear that the Taker way is a terrible way...
    
46. What can I do the help assure the survival of indigenous peoples?
    
47. How do we reach the non-reading masses? Without them, I doubt the...
    
48. I recommend Ishmael and The Story of B to everyone, but this does...
    
49. What now? What can I do? How can I help save the world?
    
50. Your approach to the role of humans in world history seems to put...
    
51. In the environmentalist world, where do you place yourself on the...
    
52. Are you a supporter of the Natural Law Party or perhaps just the...
    
53. How have you changed your own personal lifestyle in accordance wi...
    
54. How do I know that the theories proposed in Ishmael and The Story...
    
55. Its obvious from the book and your answers to questions that you...
    
56. Do you consider yourself an animist? If so, what do you do in ter...
    
57. If one is fed up with Taker society, is it necessary to become a...
    
58. Are you aware of the Neo-Pagan movement and other modern-day anim...
    
59. In your book PROVIDENCE, you mention early versions of Ishmael; a...
    
60. A Zen Buddhist friend can't see why in THE STORY OF B you've lump...
    
61. Since so much of the world's agricultural production is tied up w...
    
62. I'm college bound this year. Can you recommend a course of studie...
    
63. I understand that a number of experiments are being made in the f...
    
64. How do I find foreign versions of Ishmael? Has Daniel Quinn's wor...
    
65. Awhile back I read a question that asked if being a vegetarian w...
    
66. The way of thinking I've learned in ISHMAEL and THE STORY OF B do...
    
67. I'm puzzled by the "plot" of THE STORY OF B---or at least the mur...
    
68. Does living in the hands of the gods preclude extraordinary medic...
    
69. Is the anthropological data in THE STORY OF B actual -- the tribe...
    
70. I think there are two issues we should focus on to begin our revo...
    
71. I object to your suggesting that Jesus is especially well-suited...
    
72. According to Riane Eisler, in the fourth millenium BC nomadic her...
    
73. You say that Buddhism "views humans as innately flawed," when it...
    
74. Why are you bent on destroying the traditional religions of our c...
    
75. Don't you think your views would win a wider audience if they wer...
    
76. Doesn't modern medicine, with it's ability to prolong life, add t...
    
77. It's been said that the world will not be saved in our lifetime....
    
78. Riane Eisler speaks of the "dominator mentality"; B of the "Taker...
    
79. I'm wondering if Daniel hasn't oversimplified and left out some i...
    
80. Does the fact that Ishmael came up with a few alternative analyse...
    
81. Does the fact that Ishmael is a fictional character have any bear...
    
82. Could animism be referred to simply as a creed or philosophy and...
    
83. Equating your philosophies with the Antichrist (though I complete...
    
84. You indicate that salvationist religions (SR) developed many year...
    
85. Ishmael taught us to stop looking for things to believe in. But i...
    
86. When it comes down to it, B seems to have a pro-segregation and p...
    
87. What is the significance of the ammonite shell that B gives to Ja...
    
88. I fail to see how the conclusions in the book can be anything but...
    
89. Since the problems we face have to be addressed internationaly, h...
    
90. I’m wondering, do you think that the story of Noah helps to illus...
    
91. It has been alleged that "Taker" and "Leaver" are clever devices...
    
92. I am deeply disturbed about this whole cloning business. There is...
    
93. We didn’t get this way over night and we sure won't give it all u...
    
94. I think you've answered this question, but inadequately: There is...
    
95. If Ishmael would call the brutal Kurgan nomads from the east Take...
    
96. How does it really feel to have had that kind of influence on the...
    
97. Your ideas feel like a nicely simplified and accessible version o...
    
98. I'd really like to get behind your ideas, but I wish I was sure y...
    
99. Near beginning of "B" the point is made that people don't read &...
    
100. Have you considered publishing the website materials in book form...
     
101. Why did the narrator in Ishmael tell us practically nothing about...
     
102. Do you only believe that the Leavers can "save the world" or if i...
     
103. Apparently it's not possible to print (or save as text) from your...
     
104. When it comes to changing the vision of a people, one of the stro...
     
105. Population control through conventional means is useless, as said...
     
106. I was disappointed that so little was addressed in Ishmael concer...
     
107. My understanding is that anything we humans do that disturbs the...
     
108. May I get permission to use some information or graphics from thi...
     
109. I'm inquiring about the usage of the Internet and computer networ...
     
110. What place do 'human rights' have in Leaver society? Is there any...
     
111. In the book, you say that "modern society" started around the mid...
     
112. Several people have asked whether technology should be given up t...
     
113. I wanted to get the opinion of Mr. Quinn regarding The Natural St...
     
114. I often encourage people to read Ishamel (and now I suppose I sho...
     
115. DQ claims that there are no programs that are going to help and t...
     
116. How did DQ arrive at the name Shirin and what is its meaning?
     
117. How did you decide on scleroderma for the disease?
     
118. I have noticed that in the trade paperback version there are sec...
     
119. In a recent reply in the Q and A section of the website, you ment...
     
120. What is your take on human rights organizations such as Amnesty I...
     
121. In your book, Ishmael, you speak of the fact that ten thousand ye...
     
122. To me it seems that you discount the role of capitalism and imper...
     
123. Is there some way to be in community with other animist-oriented...
     
124. In your Illusions interview you stated that there would be many w...
     
125. I'd like to know if human overpopulation was inevitable. The fact...
     
126. Was it inevitable that Taker Culture would emerge eventually as t...
     
127. Why "B"? Why not "W"? I was thinking maybe of Beelzebub (playing...
     
128. What about the medical field... The animal kingdom generally does...
     
129. What do you do about the viruses? Humans destroy the Earth's popu...
     
130. Why does the answer "No" on the home page of Ishmael.com lead to...
     
131. I am amazed to find that you choose to use the industrial revolut...
     
132. Can you point me in the right direction to read/study further on...
     
133. How can we change the mind of an objectivist (an Ayn Rand support...
     
134. I think you there may be a problem with tracing it all to "totali...
     
135. I have read your work, Ishmael, Providence, The...
     
136. Some questions concerning the NO RIGHT WAY TO LIVE idea… Are thei...
     
137. According to our Taker mythology one of the most important values...
     
138. I work at a small, conservative high school, and am trying to org...
     
139. Can you point to examples in history where shifts in the dominant...
     
140. The topic is wanted to ask about is vices; the little "nasty" hab...
     
141. What are your thoughts of on solving world hunger? Do you think t...
     
142. I just obtained and read a review copy of "A Newcomer's Guide to...
     
143. You answer the questions about vegetarianism in strictly economic...
     
144. Why did you write Ishmael as a novel? And I can't help adding --...
     
145. I am curious about your speaking engagements and other projects t...
     
146. What three things about writing (that is, the actual process of p...
     
147. Is it possible that the evolution of man's mind and the subsequen...
     
148. It seems that there is in fact a right way to live for a particul...
     
149. I would be the first to agree that there is a great deal of glori...
     
150. In "Ishmael" there are a number of interesting claims: pg.180: "....
     
151. What is the impact of non-food agriculture (i.e. corn for ethanol...
     
152. In your reply you suggest that being a vegetarian is ethnocentric...
     
153. If animals don't have a higher right to life than plants, then wh...
     
154. I am trying to develop a reading list and resource guide for a cl...
     
155. My question is, when does a person become B? Is there a fundament...
     
156. Does this website need any help to stay around? I have a feeling...
     
157. Do all species engage in Erratic Retaliation?
     
158. What about dolphins? Are they tribal?
     
159. It seems to me that the only way we can feed 6 billion peo...
     
160. I've always found the fictional format of your books a distractio...
     
161. It seems to me that you're advocating a return to living by natur...
     
162. Is your greeting for the new website (the one that mentions Zoroa...
     
163. When I asked my very religious sister about why the Bible says "a...
     
164. If we were to just stabilize the production of food as of 'right'...
     
165. I have a question that concerns evolution, culture and Richard Da...
     
166. I was wondering if you were familiar with terms categorizing soci...
     
167. But what about democracy? We are all raised to believe that demo...
     
168. I’d like information about the Turner Tomorrow Competition--winne...
     
169. What did you hope to accomplish with ISHMAEL and your other books...
     
170. The Makaw tribe of the American Northwest is trying to return to...
     
171. Is it o.k. to print out some of the website info and have it avai...
     
172. I think you’re being unduly pessimistic about our population futu...
     
173. I have a close friend who will be going off to the Peace Corps ve...
     
174. New interest in ISHMAEL, as I'm sure you know, has been spawned b...
     
175. When I talk to people about controlling the population of the Ear...
     
176. Although the events in The Story Of B were fictional, it seems ve...
     
177. I was wondering what Mr. Quinn thought of the Kibbutz system in I...
     
178. I am in college and I am struggling quite a bit. I'm having trou...
     
179. I would like to know Mr. Quinn´s thoughts regarding the Y2k compu...
     
180. Do you honestly feel that a time will come about when enough peop...
     
181. For almost all my life I've wanted no other career than teaching,...
     
182. In Ishmael, Alan comes to the realization that our Taker c...
     
183. Have scholars ignored or overlooked animism because the experienc...
     
184. You answer your questions in a rather brisk and curt manner. I a...
     
185. Recently, I saw a Dateline special about a group of Southern Chri...
     
186. I am a student at a Protestant seminary and was given Ishmael as...
     
187. At the end of Ishmael you seem to suggest that human intelligence...
     
188. I have not attended any type of organized religious gathering sin...
     
189. By the time we "discovered" America the continent was fully inhab...
     
190. Did you have a sequel in mind when you wrote Ishmael? More to th...
     
191. What exactly should I do to help encourage your philosophy?
     
192. I am involved in a small group presentation for my class...we are...
     
193. You don't make your beliefs clear in Ishmael. Do you belie...
     
194. I am making a web page with some chapters of your books. This is...
     
195. I've read nearly every single question and answer in the past yea...
     
196. I wonder if you can elaborate on the idea in My Ishmael of the s...
     
197. I wonder if the recent school massacre in Colorado strikes you as...
     
198. I consider myself an animist, but whenever I tell people this the...
     
199. I recently saw a movie titled The Matrix. I noticed some...
     
200. While I understand the theory that vegetarianism tends to aggrava...
     
201. I'm finishing my graduate work in educational leadership. I've al...
     
202. Wouldn't the laws of chance dictate that the Agricultural Revolut...
     
203. Ishmael says he knows of no biblical scholar who interprets the G...
     
204. Do we never resort to battle? I mean, if the last two Ibex are s...
     
205. I am currently researching the evolution of various hunter gather...
     
206. How does it feel to know that your messages will not be heard by...
     
207. When you started writing My Ishmael, did you intend it to...
     
208. What made you choose a young girl to be Ishmael's student...
     
209. Would you make any changes to My Ishmael now if you could?...
     
210. My Ishmael is not as highly praised as Ishmael. Why...
     
211. Are there any schools or courses that have adopted Mr. Quinn's wr...
     
212. OK, I understand that there are biological mechanisms that are in...
     
213. It's my impression that the Makah are a Leaver people who are try...
     
214. I've come across many people, including myself at times, that are...
     
215. The USDA is going to license a patent to Monsanto for genetically...
     
216. How do I find and purchase books written by Daniel Quinn?
     
     
217. Ayn Rand's ATLAS SHRUGGED, (among other books) has been a motivat...
     
218. About the movie INSTINCT... Your reaction?
     
219. There has been much talk lately where I live (the Seattle area) o...
     
220. How do I discuss the problems of our Taker culture with bible-be...
     
221. Ishmael says that to feed a starving people will only perpetuate...
     
222. I know its impossible to know exactly how our world would look a...
     
223. It's great that you have all these new videos on population growt...
     
224. If we return to Leaver cultures we will still be subject to the s...
     
225. Has Marxism influenced your thinking in any way, and what is you...
     
226. It occurs to me that our society (at least here in America) hasn'...
     
227. I always end up in conversations about your book in hopes of intr...
     
228. Do you agree that local currencies like Ithaca (NY)'s and Edgar C...
     
229. Do you think that God recognizes the problems of the world and th...
     
230. I was just wondering if you have a personal favorite of your book...
     
231. What do you see as the common elements between Ishmael and...
     
232. Are you saying that the Israelis and Arabs, the Irish Catholics a...
     
233. I understand (and agree) that there is no one right way for peopl...
     
234. What if you used your influence to encourage, arrange, or even su...
     
235. What do you make of the decreasing estimates of population growth...
     
236. Human population demography indicates that the global human popul...
     
237. Yes, but how are the strategies proposed in Beyond Civilizatio...
     
238. I am looking for a newspaper or magazine article that supports Da...
     
239. Why haven't you made your books available in low-cost versions, d...
     
240. With regard to population, when the 6 billionth person was born,...
     
241. I've sensed a growing dissatisfaction occurring in the cultural m...
     
242. In the After having been enthusiastic when reading Ishmael, I am more an...
     
243. It seems to me that what you're advocating in BEYOND CIVILIZATION...
     
244. In My Ishmael, are you proposing "unlocking" the food, and if so,...
     
245. Ultimately, I see Jesus himself as a Leaver (evidenced by his lif...
     
246. I find myself feeling troubled when I read that you seem to compl...
     
247. Even if we live tribally (in the sense you use the word in Beyond...
     
248. I was VERY SURPRISED to see a link to AMAZON.F*!KI*G.COM on your...
     
249. In "Ishmael" Ishmael says that takers forgot what it is like to b...
     
250. "Sustainability" (sustainable development, living, agriculture) s...
     
251. I want to find out about more places like Sudbury Valley and more...
     
252. Could you give me the name of your editor or literary agent? I ha...
     
253. I'm thinking of writing a book. What's the lowdown on getting pub...
     
254. I was wondering why in your telling of the Adam and Eve story, yo...
     
255. I wonder if you've seen Ray V. Audette's book NeanderThin: Eat Li...
     
256. I want to find my way, but I don't believe that I will. I feel v...
     
257. I just read your speech Technology & the Other War. I'm still con...
     
258. While I think you point out some legitimate examples from history...
     
259. Do you vote? Many questions we're asked to vote about involve qu...
     
260. In the Story of B, the way you have described animism struck me a...
     
261. If man's appearance on earth was no more significant than the jel...
     
262. If the taker culture has strayed away from the way the gods purpo...
     
263. In Ishmael you state the Takers dependence on prophets. The Lakot...
     
264. I may be confused about the inclusion of Michael Time in your web...
     
265. In PROVIDENCE you mentioned the existence of prophetic dreams thr...
     
266. I don't want to end like Jeffrey. I want to have a happy, fulfil...
     
267. Exactly what did Ishmael die of?
     
268. As I think about the possibility of starting a tribal business, I...
     
269. I am a Junior majoring in History and was assigned Ishmael as rea...
     
270. I would like to know WHO IS JESUS FOR YOU?
     
271. I know that no one can predict the future, and that this may seem...
     
272. I'm surprised that you never deal with money. Isn't it true that...
     
273. A recent news story I read online describes lions and hyenas "wag...
     
274. Isn't it possible that salvationist religion may serve as an anti...
     
275. I have one question which DQ would probably consider a nobrainer...
     
276. I hope to make the issues of your work apparent to others but adm...
     
277. The story of the Fall never made sense to me fully until I read t...
     
278. One career option I was considering was to work in virology, help...
     
279. You call yourself an animist. I prefer the term "mystic," but the...
     
280. According to Ishmael, symbolically speaking, eating from the tree...
     
281. I'd like your permission to translate one of your works into the...
     
282. In Beyond Civilization, you make it clear that you're not suggest...
     
283. I realize that Ishmael is a fiction, and although it is not fact,...
     
284. Do you believe that one day, and I quote from Genesis "We will su...
     
285. Being at one time a staunch Catholic I was constantly worried tha...
     
286. I'm curious to know whether you ever thought of making a movie of...
     
287. Have you ever thought of trying to translate Ishmael's message in...
     
288. Are you familiar with the famous letter written by Chief Seattle...
     
289. Recent postings in the guestbook have asserted that one has to be...
     
290. I know you've answered several questions about the prophets, but...
     
291. Your novel Ishmael leaves me wondering how, as an individu...
     
292. Do you agree that, as defined by John Ralston Saul, ethics are "a...
     
293. With the up and coming 2000 presidential election upon us, I was...
     
294. I very much appreciate your trilogy: Ishmael, The Story of B and...
     
295. At 24, I'm terrified of losing my idealism, my excitement and pas...
     
296. How do we become Leavers?
     
297. There's a lot of upheaval about Gore losing the election because...
     
298. If the word tribe is such a stumbling block for so many, y...
     
299. Can you refer me to any published criticisms or contradictory wri...
     
300. I feel like I've been lulled back to sleep, and I'm absolutely te...
     
301. I want to use some of Dan's writings on my website/posters/flyers...
     
302. I'm a student working on an assignment that requires using an "et...
     
303. I wonder how you would feel about someone creating electronic fil...
     
304. Would you frown upon me using many of your ideas and philosophies...
     
305. A central and repeatedly stated assertion of the two Quinn books...
     
306. I'm just finishing my work toward a degree, and, having read your...
     
307. Your books have touched me and my life in ways that are unimagina...
     
308. You say that there is no one right way to live, but you are wrong...
     
309. I have a suggestion for an addition to the website... How about a...
     
310. While thinking about possible careers, I've examined my skills, d...
     
311. You say there is no one right way for people to live. I wonder if...
     
312. After reading all your books to date and listening to "The book o...
     
313. I'm surprised and perturbed that more people aren't aware of ISHM...
     
314. What are your thoughts about the NY-Washington terrorist attack?<...
     
315. My growing and learning beckons questions which crave answers. On...
     
316. What is my question to you? Simply whether you find any value in...
     
317. I just watched the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks on TV...
     
318. Is it possible that human culture evolves as do biological life-f...
     
319. Something I haven''t seen in your books is a real-world approach...
     
320. In both your books and your lectures, you appear to critique arc...
     
321. Are the food race and totalitarian agriculture the same thing? Ev...
     
322. Sign language has played a significant role in the plots of both...
     
323. Pre-Taker tribes were in a relatively constant state of low-level...
     
324. In Beyond Civilization, you mention an incident in which you almo...
     
325. Mr. Quinn, here is an interesting question that a member of our...
     
326. After having read your book "My Ishmael" and "Beyond Civilization...
     
327. Is there an afterlife in animism? Without an answer, I would ass...
     
328. In Providence, you describe how you became disenchanted with the...
     
329. In reading the guest book I've noticed that a lot of people don't...
     
330. My dad says he supports my goals and will do whatever he can to h...
     
331. I've just finished work on a book called [title and description...
     
332. I understand your stance regarding God or gods, that "the only th...
     
333. On page 192 of My Ishmael you say "This is how you must differ fr...
     
334. Say you have a group of people who have pooled their resources to...
     
335. Recently someone asked me to clarify for them the meaning behind...
     
336. I am around kids who will soon be ready to hear the things that y...
     
337. One of the most interesting and useful ideas for learning to me i...
     
338. In a review of "Ishmael" by my Sociology class, my professor rema...
     
339. I've read all your books, and I think they are amazing pieces of...
     
340. On the ish site the other day, a quote was displayed was about tr...
     
341. It seems to be that there is only choice between the Takers and t...
     
342. I agree, the frog is dead. But now what? Having a new mind alone...
     
343. I must admit that I was greatly disappointed with Beyond Civiliza...
     
344. . . I know I'm only 18, but . . .
     
345. On to the larger question..... that is to say, now that you have...
     
346. The biggest problem I have in introducing my friends to Ishmael i...
     
347. Are you aware of or have you given consideration to the type of t...
     
348. I'm 22 years old and have spent the last six years of my life de...
     
349. Though I agree with you that young children don't need books writ...
     
350. In your books you say that a simple way to determine the differen...
     
351. I wish I could take a course on Leaver vs. Taker society or somet...
     
352. I work for the Peace Corps in a country with a long established '...
     
353. I would love to try a sustainable, healthy lifestyle in accordanc...
     
354. I am a high school English teacher currently reading Ishmael with...
     
355. I just finished reading Ishmael, and I was wondering about your o...
     
356. In The Story of B, I got the impression that the Antichrist is go...
     
357. I curious about something you said in a Q&A (#508): "In every tri...
     
358. One thing that could use some scientific studies backing it up is...
     
359. I find it difficult to teach the "unteachable", or better yet, to...
     
360. I am a father to a beautiful 4 month old girl. As she grows, I wa...
     
361. I found your ideas, about tribal business, from Beyond Civilizat...
     
362. I recently recieved a copy of "Time" magazine in the mail, with a...
     
363. I was interested in your response to Question No. 579, in which...
     
364. I read as many Q&A's on the website as I could stand and did not...
     
365. Our book club is reading Ishmael for the month of August 2002. I...
     
366. What references would you recommend that compare the burden of su...
     
367. I was surprised to see your answer to Question 502, that you cons...
     
368. While I do not mean to over state the endorsement of Darwin's the...
     
369. Our class had a phone interview with Mr. Quinn yesterday (10/10/0...
     
370. I'm a senior at a Catholic highschool (a particularly uncomforta...
     
371. How are you different from the prophets who tell people how to li...
     
372. I recently finished The Holy, which I found clever and thought-pr...
     
373. According to information found on this website, the prologue to T...
     
374. What is the significance of the dentist visit in Ishmael? My tho...
     
375. What age is it best to tell kids that our culture is not working?
     
376. In Section 12.11, Ishmael tells the narrator of the novel that "i...
     
377. It has been said that politics will be the last to change because...
     
378. I've just finished After Dachau and am very perplexed and taken b...
     
379. I have read your response about the Peace Corps and am rather dis...
     
380. I was watching the tellie (television) the other day, and one of...
     
381. I have read several of your books, and love how you draw from so...
     
382. What is the difference between the methods of business organizati...
     
383. A new reader of Ishmael recently suggested that we ought to let t...
     
384. My question is one of the place of the role of government in gene...
     
385. I recently saw a show on the Discovery Channel that attempted to...
     
386. Please help me understand... My own research tells me that Leaver...
     
387. Has anyone discussed the fact that the Leaver/Taker conflict is...
     
388. I'm not quite clear about your stance on birth control. You say...
     
389. I have a question about World Health Organization and their polic...
     
390. I'm a loner. I have some friends, but I don't belong to any grou...
     
391. Reading up on theories about timelines for Matriarchal and Patria...
     
392. I am a doctor of chiropractic practicing in Canada, where, as in...
     
393. I have been reading the book "My Ishmael" and I was wondering if/...
     
394. This is regarding Q and A #603 on this site...

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395. How do you spot one of Mother Culture's Big Lies? Are there patte...
     
396. One of the surprising things about your "novels of ideas" is that...
     
397. The premise of your graphic novel THE MAN WHO GREW YOUNG is that...
     
398. Parables and dialogue play a big role in your novels (more so tha...
     
399. . I'd like to ask you a question about the many websites being cr...
     
400. While reading After Dachau I began to wonder how the novel relate...
     
401. In "Tales of Adam", Mr. Quinn makes reference to gods not of the...
     
402. Mr.Quinn I recently read Ishmael for a program on Civilization an...
     
403. Daniel, I've got a million questions for you... such as why you...
     
404. I just read Ishmael and found it thought provoking in many ways....
     
405. I've found myself rereading the Holy, not for the animist theme,...
     
406. What are your personal feelings about polygamy? On an Ishmael me...
     
407. This is both a question and a comment. On your website I see peop...
     
408. I recently read about Peak Oil. The theory states that we will so...
     
409. After reading My Ishmael, it has come to mind that there are a fe...
     
410. I don't know how relevant or likely this is, but I was wondering...
     
411. Even if it isn't "the one right way for people to live," wouldn't...
     
412. I am a U.S. sailor recently returned from a deployment to the mid...
     
413. Have you ever thought of writing a children's book outlining idea...
     
414. Was there a difference for you in the writing process when you wr...
     
415. Do you have an opinion about Genetically Modified Foods?
     
416. I have recently decided to give up dairy for health and animal we...
     
417. I loved The Story of B, especially what it had to say about animi...
     
418. What biological mechanisms would allow humans to keep their popul...
     
419. I am interested in finding any models of new tribal economic vent...
     
420. A population that is over represented beyond sustainability will...
     
421. Were you influenced by any of the works of CS Lewis? Particularl...
     
422. It would seem from the earth's point of view that a flu pandemic...
     
423. I was wondering if you have ever read anything about the Spanish...
     
424. While discussing the ideas in your books, some people have said t...
     
425. This is a letter from a lost boy in search of his life calling. I...
     
426. In "The New Renaissance" you say, "I'm afraid the human race is g...
     
427. How many different editions of Ishmael exist? How do I identify w...
     
428. I first heard about Derrick Jensen's work through a recommendatio...
     
429. A book was recently written by an author named Richardson B. Gill...
     
430. In the response to one question, ID number 551, you said "Among L...
     
431. You speak of programs very often as being only reactionary, but i...
     
432. Although I never try to open discussion of your ideas with "born...
     
433. In a recent Q&A you stated "... the author of any literary work d...
     
434. The basic idea is that when our human population grows large enou...
     
435. I'm surprised by your answer to question #561 in the Q&A (Jamband...
     
436. I understand that totalitarian agriculture and "putting the food...
     
437. I've noticed that our cultural vision is often self-contradicting...
     
438. I have always questioned whether natural selection is still worki...
     
439. I'm presently doing a research on Quinn's books and their relatio...
     
440. You say the only thing we can do to save the world is to change o...
     
441. Everyday sees another action or reaction between Israelites and P...
     
442. In this day and age it's hard for the young generation. I my self...
     
443. I'm a sophomore in college who is considering a double major in...
     
444. I was just curious as to if any of mr quinns books have been bann...
     
445. I noticed you have a short story in one of Terri Windling and Ell...
     
446. It seems that in leaver cultures children are thrust into their a...
     
447. On more than one occasion in your books and in your responses to...
     
448. I'm currently reading 'The story of B' whereby you distinguish be...
     
449. Regarding the "lies" of Mother Culture, there is one lie (actuall...
     
450. If you have been watching the news recently, you must have seen...
     
451. I am now fighting two distinct battles. One against the idea that...
     
452. In your response to question 579 you said that closed-minded indi...
     
453. In two previous questions you have hinted at a dissatisfaction wi...
     
454. You often mention the idea of a Learning Circus in which people o...
     
455. I'm 18, a senior in high school and ready to conquer what my pare...
     
456. I see that you used the word/name Bwana in the conversation on pa...
     
457. I cannot find "senectuous" as in "my senectuous bribee" page 235,...
     
458. What do you think of Robert Carniero's theory of environmental c...
     
459. I'm curious about the significance of the number thirteen in your...
     
460. I have seen references to teenagers in some of the questions, how...
     
461. First of all I would like to say that i am 17 years old and I jus...
     
462. After reading Ishmael, we were wondering how it fits in with Mr....
     
463. What steps led you to question the conventional reading of the st...
     
464. It's my impression that more and more people are becoming interes...
     
465. You speak of Leavers having a sort of wealth that we lack and des...
     
466. As you have so often stated Leaver societies work(ed) because the...
     
467. In Jared Diamond's excellent book _Guns, Germs, and Steel_, he a...
     
468. You mention autism briefly in My Ishmael. Autism is a diagnosis...
     
469. Is lifetime membership a defining characteristic of tribes? i.e....
     
470. I can recall sitting in gov't. class and my teacher, a well-know...
     
471. Have you ever asked your publisher to release the entire Ishmael...
     
472. I am writing a short story about a small community in present day...
     
473. You ask a capitalist how he expects to survive without biodiversi...
     
474. I recently read an interview on Booksense.com in which you stated...
     
475. I am a LCPL in the Marine Corp. I am 2 years from finishing my c...
     
476. After reading "The Holy" I think I have a better grasp of what ou...
     
477. My question concerns your thesis regarding food production and p...
     
478. Is it possible for the "owner" of a tribal company (by this I mea...
     
479. I live near a Lake Champlain in the northeastern US. The lake has...
     
480. I'm 14 years old, and i live in southeastern michigan. The main r...
     
481. This might seem like a silly question, but I must attempt to have...
     
482. Mr Quinn, held within every one of your books is a certain type o...
     
483. In your books, you seem to draw a very definite line between the...
     
484. In one of the lectures in The Story of B, I think it may be the f...
     
485. It seems to me that half the problem with everything in this worl...
     
486. I am troubled by your answer to question 637. Perhaps I am misint...
     
487. I am married to a practicing Roman Catholic who believes very str...
     
488. I have a question about religion. In mother culture it appears th...
     
489. I did some research on a group of people that lived in a remote m...
     
490. I recently spent a few days at the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in S...
     
491. I recognize the fact that cultures are subject to a form of natur...
     
492. I am writing to follow up from a response I received to question...
     
493. Okay, so you have grown up in this society that is ruled by mothe...
     
494. Please excuse the generalness of this question. I teach a group o...
     
495. I just picked up a copy of 'Our Secret Plan: What Will Our Grandc...
     
496. It's been over a decade since Ishmael was published. My question...
     
497. Why did you single out the Roman Catholic church as B's antagonis...
     
498. May I ask why Derrick Jensen sued to block Context books merger r...
     
499. I recently read "The Holy" and found on this website that part of...
     
500. I have recently come across a culture know as the 'Aleut' who inh...
     
501. I've been thinking about trying to find those "others" that you w...
     
502. After reading My Ishmael school seems unimportant, i don't want t...
     
503. What do you think of things like the Roman coliseum, professiona...
     
504. While you were writing the Ishmael Trilogy, did you think/feel th...
     
505. How can people teach themselves to escape Mother Culture's story...
     
506. In question 667, Mr Quinn notes, "I've been very impressed with t...
     
507. I was wondering how the current religious/Islamist extremists fit...
     
508. I agree with you when you say that prohibiting a behavior never...
     
509. Are you familiar with The Coalition of Essential Schools? Briefl...
     
510. Unfortunately, in my pursuit of a non-economical version of succ...
     
511. Daniel, I've got a million questions for you... such as why you m...
     
512. I agree with you when you say that prohibiting a behavior never e...
     
513. In Ishmael, when you are talking about the cultural amnesia that...
     
514. While reading After Dachau I began to wonder how the novel relate...
     
515. In "Tales of Adam", Mr. Quinn makes reference to gods not of the...
     
516. Its obvious from the book and your answers to questions that you...
     
517. In Ishmael you had mentioned that if humans exempt themselves fro...
     
518. I've read "Ishmael" and "The Story of B". Your thinking seems sou...
     
519. Regarding your opinion on genetically modified food in reponse to...
     
520. Regarding all the recent campaigns for the 'make poverty history'...
     
521. In response to the question and answer #538, you stated that you...
     
522. I've been hearing a lot of discussion lately regarding transhuman...
     
523. In an article titled "Comprehension by Crucible" (which was origi...
     
524. What kind of changes would one need to make in order to become a...
     
525. People ask whether we should go to war to defend those suffering...
     
526. I have been disappointed in what 'school' did for me, and therefo...
     
527. I want to know what to tell people about the food race when they...
     
528. Near the conclusion of "Ishmael," you proclaimed that humans in t...
     
529. I am 19 years old musician, and I know I can write and act and c...
     
530. Was there a difference for you in the writing process when you wr...
     
531. "The Man Who Grew Young" and Fritz Lieber's "The Man Who Never Gr...
     
532. With the upcoming changes that the world will be facing in the ne...
     
533. The interpretation of the story about Cain and Abel and the story...
     
534. How are you doing? I'm up to date on the bankruptcy/waiting-for-...
     
535. Do you believe that the product of "saving souls" was necessary f...
     
536. As a writer, I am always working on new creative processes. And I...
     
537. I just finished The Story of B and was blown away. I consider my...
     
538. I am a film student in his last year ready to begin my final proj...
     
539. Every time I talk about walking away from civilization and living...
     
540. Though I certainly enjoyed After Dachau, The Man Who Grew Young,...
     

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