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community, Daniel Quinn, hermit, human sociality, Ishmael, social behavior, social change, solitude
Yesterday my dear friend (and co-editor of Emergent Thought Magazine) and I were discussing Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael and the book’s lessons for social change and the human animal condition. I mentioned how the book seems to be a bible for primitive anarchism and re-wilding initiatives. But my friend concluded that the book is much more than that. The work forces us to explore the multiple degrees of human sociality and how economic and social diversity (as well as cultural diversity) is necessary for humans to have a stable ecological existence. Continue reading
