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3 topics: 1-Daniel Quinn links 2-a tribute to Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn's latest and most practical quick read
3- Progress to start a nonprofit land trust secure lifetime rights to grow our own food. How to organize a modern tribe that will survive? Organizing goals?
Background:
Leavers and Takers are terms first introduced in 1992, in the award-winning novel Ishmaelby Daniel Quinn Two sequels, The Story of B ('97), and My Ishmael (98) are also about Leavers and Takers.
(To orderbooks, use Daniel Quinn's website)
So far, Leavers.Org is without reference to the sequels My Ishmael and The Story of B ) and only to Ishmael and Beyond Civilization ('99), Daniel Quinn's latest. So far, the page doesn't reference Providence ('94) and A Newcomer's Guide to the AfterLife ('97), two more Daniel Quinn books.
Leavers were also the focus of the recent major motion picture, Instinct,starring Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Donald Sutherland.
New Tribal Ventures.Com is Daniel Quinn's primary webpage, though Ishmael.org is also listed as his site.
Leavers.Org is inspired by the global social crisis occuring since domination/competition based civilizations have overcome tribal societies.
I have taken it on because I identified strongly with the story of Ishmael. I recommend this book very strongly. I hope that key passages of the book will be available here, with the intention that more of us will learn of and read the entire book.
For my purposes: Leavers is a broad term for people who would be free of domination. In the big picture, most of human history and growth occured in the context of hunters and gatherers pursuing survival and minding their own business.
In recent millenia, organized societies have evolved that intentionally stifle individual freedom, sometimes for the purpose of centralizing wealth and power among an elite group of dominators, with side-effect of damaging the quality of life for everyone else, particuarly Leavers and wildlife.
These dominators are "Takers," who forcefully take more than they need for the purpose of increasing their future power.
Ishmael is an exploration into how this happened and why, leaving us with the question of what to do about it. I expect that Quinn's more recent books offer solutions. To start, this homepage is a discussion of my own personal knowledge of these issues.
Leaver societies are most easily identified as self-sufficient tribal societies that populated the entire Earth for millenia. With industrialization magnifiying the power of taker dominators, most Leaver socities have effectively collapsed, becoming engulfed in exploding societies pursuing goals of taker domination.
This includes of fall of native American tribes. For thousands of years, many tribes existed in the Americas, for the most part living in peace. These tribal people had entirely different philosophies from the the European invaders
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Daniel Quinn's newest is a practical discussion
for addressing mankinds imminent next adventure,
transition from taker domination society to healthy
and sustainable tribalism.Help nominate favorites from Beyond Civilization!
Leavers.Org should compile a list of favorites.
Leavers.Org will nominate (to Daniel Quinn)
that the most recommended pages be placed online.) email [email protected] with your favorites.See the topics addressed in Beyond Civilization.
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Beyond Civilization has a very reader-friendly format.
Each page has a specific theme.
Beyond Civilization will be available on sale at Alkebulan Books near Ashby BART. 653-8754 (510-653-8754) (20% discount available probably, though you may have to email [email protected] first.
A group of Berkeley activists are laboring to start a "land trust leaver healing organization," to establish a tribal work ethic and permanent rural location where members will be able to grow food and orchards. Sustainability WITHOUT ("taker") domination is the purpose, . . Leavers.Org may be the database for events and other organization related news.Organizing goals?
The goal is to start nonprofit orchards and "community"/tribe based: rural gardens.email [email protected]
How can we address mankinds dilemma?
Humans need tribal societies to live in, but tribes, and the earth,
have fallen victim to taker domination.
How can new tribes organize, and thrive, in the modern world?
"Leavers Org" essentially refers to "organizing to protect leavers from taker domination", (from keeping what they take and/or enslaving innocent tribespeople.)
Taker domination has thrived when dominators were able to keep what they took, leaving the peaceful tribespeople with less. New tribes face the same problem. If they thrive, they are at such risk from takers that they need freedom-stifling protective measures.
So how can tribes organize forsuccess? Leavers.Org may become a forum for addressing this topic.
(Furthermore, I am not talking about elitist costly getaways, but organizing progress that will work for the world.)
Goal
of Leavers.Organizing?
This spring Leavers.Organizing will monitor the progress of efforts for a land trust where people would sign up to plant orchards and gardens, where we could easily obtain lifetime security to care for the land and trees. The project is essentially to organize a new tribal organization to improve the land and protect it legally. Prior to planting orchards, (temporary) tree nurseries are taking shape in Berkeley.
Immediate priorities:
choose land
-organize membership agreement and a few parties
-plant gardens and care
for tree nursery in Oakland and Berkeley.
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