As I read page 200, there were various ideas going through my mind. I started to think about culture, the way it is passed from generation to generation, and the way each generation modifies that culture. But, the real idea going through my mind was that the heirs of this knowledge accumulation were the "Leavers," and not the "Takers." As I kept reading through the page, I found a very interesting passage:
"The leavers are still passing that accumulation along in whatever form it came to them. But we're not, because ten thousand years ago the founders of our culture said, 'This is all shit. This is not the way people should live,' and they got rid of it." -pg. 200
And as I kept reading, I found:
" Leaver peoples are always conscious of having a tradition that goes back to very ancient times. We have no such consciousness. For the most part, we're a very 'new' people. Every generation is somehow new, more thoroughly cut off from the past than the one that came before."- pg. 201
These two passages, got me thinking in the way we "Takers" live. We don't really care for the past, we just believe that our way of leaving is the right one always. We think everything has to be our way because if it is not, it is wrong.
"That is what we Takers want. That's what takers want. We don't want to know a way to live that works well. We want to know the one right way. " -pg. 204
"Takers" don't care if things work well for them, they only care if things work the right way according to them. They need a guide on how to live, they need someone to tell them the right way to live. While "Leavers" knew how to live, they didn't need anyone to tell them how to do anything.
lunes, 25 de agosto de 2008
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