Ch 12: Are the Leavers the only ones that can save the world?

The main character really seems interested in buying Ishmael because he still tries to negotiate with Art Owens who is the current owner of the gorilla. “What happens to people- to creatures in general-who live in the hands of the gods. Ah yes I see, they evolve.” Pg 237 Creatures who decide to rule themselves and not be in hand of the gods will stop evolving. So when Adam ate the fruit of knowledge and thought that we didn’t need gods anymore we stopped evolving. I really think that we continue evolving but according to Ishmael we don’t. “Man became man by living in the hands of the gods.” Pg 237. So according to Ishmael only the Bushmen of Africa, Indians of Brazil and practically Leavers are still constantly evolving. All evolution is happening thanks to creatures still being in the hands of the gods. The takers story tells us that evolution stopped when man was created so in enacting the Taker story we are stopping the evolution and in one point creation will reach to an end. Leavers premise is that man belongs to the world and they will continue evolving forever, but the Taker premise is that world belongs to man so they stopped evolving. Man does have a role in this world that is to be like the experiment rats of the entire world because we are the first to discover. We are going to be the role models of other creatures because we will be the ones that experiment all the life and when we fail we will leave to the other creatures the correct way to live. “This is what we need. Not just stopping things. Not just less of things. People need something positive to work for.” Pg 243 this quote reminded me of another one said earlier that was that you can’t just stop enacting a story; you have to be in another story. Taker civilization today still is destroying Leavers like in Cain and Abel. We are still taking up land in where Indian live to search for resources, for petroleum for water. If we are destroying the few Leavers that are left, when there will be no turning point, how are we going to be able to save the world? Then they talk about how to save the world and Ishmael tells him that they have to stop killing Leavers. Then they talk about Ishmael’s past students and he tells the character that he had an ex convict as pupil and that in jail there are also the rich, the poor, the strong, the weak, etc. You would tend to think that all are treated equal and that is how it is supposed to be but also the world is corrupt. We can also think as the taker world being a cultural jail and the free people being the Leavers. So are the Leavers the only ones that can save the world?