Beyond civilization
by Daniel Quinn · first published 1999
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In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live -- and the one we have is it, no matter what. Beyond Civilization makes practical sense of the vision of Daniel Quinn's best-selling novel Ishmael. Examining ancient civilizations such as the Maya and the Olmec, as well as modern-day microcosms of alternative living like circus societies, Quinn guides us on a quest for a new model
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…way. When you're brought up in a culture that is already one way or the other, and that is all you know, you rarely choose because it's not even a question that enters your mind. I'd suggest reading Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn.
on “You weren't meant to have a boss” ↗* Daniel Quinn - Beyond Civilization (an easy read about what's wrong with today's society, why, and how to fix it. Not political, rather what you can do yourself. It was a real eye-opener to me) * Jared Diamond - Collapse: How Societies…
on “Ask HN: Interesting (Non software) books?” ↗Reminds me of "Beyond Civilization" by Daniel Quinn. In the end, most of us just want to join the circus. We want to be a part of something special, where everyone is working towards a common goal. We join the circus to be a part of something,…
on “You're not the CEO - You're the Fucking Janitor” ↗…the 1962 sci-fi novel the The Great Explosion" by Eric Frank Russell who live by the adage "Freedom can say "I won't"". The same has been true throughout human history as explained in Daniel Quinn's "Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure" where he shows how centralized governance has collapsed many times in human history as whatever problems emerged in it (often from external pressures like droughts or…
on “The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel surveillance tool” ↗…and live off the land. And people have done so for millennia as civilization after civilization has atrophied and collapsed (often under environmental stress or social corruption). See Daniel Quinn's "Beyond Civilization" writings for example or Wikipedia on societal collapse. In our interconnected world we now have nukes and engineered plagues. We also have total internet-based mobile surveillance (worse than "1984"…
on “A few words on Doug Engelbart (2013)” ↗