Essay On Taker Culture

ultures of human culture, those being “leavers” and “takers”. His first allusion, a biblical reference to the fall of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden is actually the story of when the leaver and taker cultures separated historically. Ishmael explains that after eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, humans gained what they thought was “the knowledge of the gods”. This is where the leaver culture, which modern man descends from, developed an attitude that their way of life was the right way and that it should be spread. Takers began to believe that entire purpose of evolution was the arrival of mankind on the planet, and that we are here to dominate all, or that all resources on earth are ours to exploit. Commonly, this attitude …show more content…
In order for the agriculturalists to expand and fulfill their Taker "destiny,” spreading the way of life they believed was right, they had to take land from the herders. This is represented in the story of Cain’s murder of Abel. From here the agricultural revolution took off, and the taker culture expanded, while the smaller leaver culture was almost forgotten, but did not die out. The use of the terms “leavers” and “takers” by Quinn, and his explanation of their historical split through these allusions, perfectly exemplify the differences between mankind’s development into an anthropomorphic culture, and the smaller indigenous cultures all over the world that represent a far more ecocentric relationships to the natural world, which are much more sustainable. Also notable about the further development of the traits of these two cultural subcategories is the differences in their transmittal of knowledge. Quinn expresses one of the key answers to the thematic question of, “why things are how they are”, in discussing the cultural amnesia seen in taker cultures, compared to a culture that grows from its history and adapts, constantly evolving, represented by leaver cultures. In Taker cultures, technological