The Revolution

“Mother Cultures teaches that, before the revolution, human life was devoid of meaning, was stupid, empty, and worthless. Prerevolutionary life was ugly. Detestable.” (Quinn, Page 216) Chapter 11 tropes conclusions on how the taker life-style is better than the leaver style. How the taker that convinces a leaver to change and become a civilized men.
Mother Culture teaches the civilized that the leaver life is grim one. Humans lived as animals and had no control. Ishmael and its pupil make a dialogue, the human was a taker and its teacher was a leaver. The objective was, to convince a leaver to become a taker. Through the discussion the student constantly explains why the uncivilized life is worst than it’s opposite. Well, humans in the prerevolutionary moment had no control over a destiny, they weren’t save; the gods hade no mercy. Its human’s nature to develop and become more independent. The life process of a normal man is to become more independent; He starts being a baby that cannot eat by himself, later on when he is a teenager he may take some decisions and at last when he becomes a adult he lives by himself. I think the revolution was caused by this human feature. They dint think that by planting they were going to have control over them, they wanted to become more independent. They made a natural development.
In the book, it’s mentioned that humans before the revolutions lived the same for 3 million years. That’s not true. Men each time hade more complex tools for hunting, they discovered the fire they started painting and had other important developments. People think that the uncivilized life is a disastrous one. That’s caused by the human habit to life in a different society in which we are supposed to have over control. “Look, here’s the point. Unless you control your own food supply, you live at mercy of the world. It doesn’t matter that there’s always been enough. That’s not the point. You can’t live at the whim of the gods. That’s just not a human way to live.” (Quinn, page 224)