Chapter 1-4
What does Ishmael represent in the book?
Nature, the abandoned one.
Fill in the blank: "He just has to _ a little harder, that's all."
Pedal
What knowledge do Takers accumulate?
What works well for things
Fill in the blanks: You're ______ of a civilizational system that compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.
captives.
Fill in the blanks:
It's the ________ law, the law that protects not only the community as a whole, but species within the community and even individuals.
peace-keeping
What is the knowledge needed to rule the world?
Who shall live and who shall die
What is a story according to Ishmael?
A scenario interrelating man, the world, and the gods.
Name two things Takers do that are never done in the rest of the community.
1. Takers systematically destroy their competitors food to make room for their own
2. They exterminate their competitors
3. They deny competitors' access to food
What are the premises of the Taker and Leaver story?
Taker story: ‘the world belongs to man.’
Leaver story: ‘man belongs to the world.’
Explain the phrase, "The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it", and answer the following question:
What was the turning point that differentiated humans from other species?
becoming agriculturalists.
What does the peace-keeping law promote?
It promotes order and diversity.
What does it mean "to be the first without being the last"?
To be the first intelligent species and guiding others to be so
Fill in the blanks:
1. According to this story, the meaning of the world is that it's the ______ of man.
2. It's the price of ______ a ____ that casts mankind as the _____ of the world.
1. birthplace
2. enacting, story, enemy
Who is the gloomy nineteenth-century thinker who said, "If we go on this way, we're going to be in big trouble in the not-too-distant future."?
Hint: we talked about him in class and he has a theory named after himself
Thomas Robert Malthus
Who are the Kreen-Akrore?
Indigenous people of Brazil, who are examples of Leavers