Beyond Civilization Humanity's Next Great Adventure Analysis

Fixing society, it’s a commonly discussed topic with many many different opinions, but who really holds the key to unlock our full potential. In Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn, he claims to know the answer. He claims that our society is doomed unless we make drastic changes, and flip what we know upside down. Daniel Quinn goes on to say how we need new minds to come up with a solution, rather than old minds coming up with programs and how we need to orient our movement toward how tribes used to be, a simpler, more efficient time. Now, whether or not I agree with Quinn’s statements, is another thing. My first impressions of this “manual for change” and the programs vs. old minds chapters were very good. I have a few reservations on abolishing the programs all together, though. I believe they have done some good, but overall, he has strong points and I can view his side of things. My reservations for the abolition of programs did get in the way a bit as I was reading and did make viewing his points from another point of view trickier than I’d first imagined. As of this moment, our society is …show more content…
He then relates the circuses (which as he states are often million dollar companies) to ethnic tribes. “It's not at all uncommon to see three and even four generations working side by side.”(page 67) It makes a lot of sense to me that such a situation would be ideal in the future he is describing he wants because many more people would be working and there would be less homeless and families would be more self sustained. Later he mentions that we should listen to what the homeless need rather than trying to abolish the homeless situation all together, but if things were all family owned and we worked together harmoniously like he suggests then homelessness would be much less of a