On How To Disappoint Your Conservative Father Analysis

How To Disappoint Your Conservative Father At this point in my life, I can tell you without hesitation that I believe in biocentrism, and that my worldview is primarily one of Environmental Wisdom. However, I had very little opinion on the environment at all until I was about 12 or 13 and picked up a National Geographic for the first time. It’s astounding the impact that one’s environment can have on their environmental worldview as well as their environmental actions. I was raised in a very wasteful environment; I lived in the small town of Crosby, Texas until I was 14. There, few people recycle and, with less money to spend, fast food is a frequent meal. People there don’t have the time or money to buy the most environmentally friendly, or healthy choices. My father was as anthropocentric as it is possible to be. He spoke often about how global warming was a hoax and saw little need for conservation of animals or forest. It’s not that I accepted these small town practices or my father’s viewpoints, it’s that they weren’t even regarded as an issue often enough to be brought to the forefront of my mind. When I got old enough to read about environmental issues, I grew to believe the complete opposite of my father.
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Quinn most notably did this with the ‘stampede’ theory. During one of their lessons, Ishmael states that the entire human race is captive to a story of conquering the earth, he says, “ Even if you weren’t personally captivated by the story, you were a captive all the same, because the people around you made you a captive. You were like an animal being swept along in the middle of a stampede” (Quinn 19). This resonated with me deeply. It put such a complex idea about social pressures and status quo into a simple analogy that allowed for another realm of thought to open