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Summary: Dismal and disappointing
Review: After reading Ishmael, one could only have high hopes for anything by Daniel Quinn. Beyond Civilization does not measure up to expectation. Quinn does a good job describing how we arrived at our current condition but fails utterly to paint a way out. Perhaps that is asking a bit much, but that is what "Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure" promises but does not deliver. If anything, Quinn's "new tribalism" looks a lot like cooperatives from the 60s and 70s. The best examples he provides of a hopeful future is a traveling circus and embracing homelessness. I can hardly wait to explain to my children how the best hope is to run away and join the circus. Somehow I don't think this is the stuff the inspires revolution, or even evolution. Sorry, this one is a loser.
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Summary: just awesome
Review: Reading this book was/is one of the most profound experiences in my life.I always thought that I was an alienated misfit.There is life outside of our souless corporate pyramids.I intend to spend the rest of my life trying to jump the wall If there is anyone in the NW USA that feels the same way please contact me at my E-mail address
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Summary: just awesome
Review: Reading this book and reading Ishmael is/was one of the most profound experiences of my life For most of my life I thought I was a alienated misfit.There is life outside of our souless corporate pyramids and I will spend the rest of my little life trying to jump the wall! If there is anyone in the Northwest US that feels this way --please feel free to E-mail me at garyoppie3774@mailcity.com
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Summary: Had high hopes....
Review: After reading "Ishmael" and "Story of B" and viewing the "Food Production and Population Growth" video, I had high hopes for "Beyond Civilization". Unfortunately, I was very dissapointed. I don't think tribes will catch on or provide a solution to our current path of ecological suicide. In my opinion, Daniel Quinn is best at describing the ramifications of current issues/problems in a way that is easily understood. He is not as suited to providing solutions to those the problems. I believe that Paul Hawken's book, "The Ecology of Commerce" is a great solutions book.
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Summary: Profound and Impactful
Review: Read and join the revolution!
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Summary: simply amazing
Review: i read this book in under a week, because i just couldn't put it down. After i was done reading it, i wished i could take myself back in time before i read it, because i wanted to explore all the ideas and have all be new to me all over again. This is a book that everybody, i mean EVERYBODY really needs to read.
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Summary: Cultural Revolution
Review: This book is THE spark that will ignite our cultural revolution
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Summary: One of the greatest thinkers of this century
Review: In Beyond Civilization Quinn lays out with remarkable clarity still more evidence that the system of tribes works best. His in depth analysis of the civilizations of the New World are as mind shattering as anything else he has laid out before. His Social Scientific work stands up to the test too. When you have Richard Dawkins work to go by you can't go wrong. Mr. Quinn is the greatest thinker on the planet today. Although his presentation of the ideas isn't quite a literary masterpiece his ability to tell stories that cut through it all is nothing short of amazing.
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Summary: If you've ever _really_ wanted to save the world...
Review: ...read this book. And read it NOW! I have been a fan of DQ's for years now, and I'm in very good company. Visionaries such as Paul Hawken and Ray Anderson are also admirers, as are thousands who are involved in the Simplicity and Sustainability movements. All of these so-called "cultural creatives" have been seeking ways to live that don't destroy; have been looking for a way to revel in being alive without supporting the cancerous "culture of maximum harm" that surrounds us and _is_ us. And although there has been some progress made by certain small groups, we've all been hampered by a lack of a common, underlying vision. Now, we have that vision. Daniel Quinn has suggested concrete ways to make many of our dreams a reality. This book will be, I predict, as much of a turning point for those of us seeking right livelihood, a more sustainable and just world, and a way of living that honors the web of life around us, as the book _Your_Money_or_Your_Life_ (by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin) has been for those of us seeking ways to _financially_ opt out of our consumer culture. This book will become a classic. Read it at your own peril...and at the peril of our dis-eased culture.
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Summary: BEYOND CIVILIZATION, first Great Book of the new millennium
Review: "Beyond Civilization," the latest and, in many ways, most powerful work from writer/philosopher Daniel Quinn, is the first Great Book of the new millennium. In this latest and stunningly provocative work Mr. Quinn has brought into sharp focus the ideas, observations, and original thinking that have formed the conceptual and thematic basis of his body of work from the award-winning "Ishmael" through "The Story of B," "Providence," and "My Ishmael." This non-fiction presentation is profound in its format; each page presents a specific topic and discussion which can send the thoughtful reader into the most profound and inspiring rumination on some of the most important issues and considerations for our survival as a species. The writing is deceptively simple and direct in style, presenting thoughts as significant to political, social, environmental, and personal life in the 21st Century as the deceptively simple equation "E=mc2" was to 20th Century science. Ideas like, "There is no one right way for people to live," for example. Think about it! This is a book to read, reread, consider and think about over and over again. While seeming to overlook just how many unsolved problems have been created by, and how imperfect is, the way we're living now, some will criticize the book by saying it doesn't solve everything and isn't perfect. But "Beyond Civilization" isn't meant to be the complete answer, "only" the most complete asking of the real questions, along with some of the most profound suggestions for answers ever found in one book. If we're to survive as a species, and beyond that to achieve truly meaningful and happy lives as individuals, Daniel Quinn has given us what may be the most important book to be written for the next millennium. It's certainly a most profound, provocative, stimulating, and seminal work, while remaining eminently and enjoyably readable.
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