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    <![CDATA[Futurist Daniel Quinn (<em>Ishmael</em>) dares to imagine a new approach to saving the world that involves deconstructing civilization. Quinn asks the radical yet fundamental questions about humanity such as, Why does civilization grow food, lock it up, and then make people earn money to buy it back? Why not progress &quot;beyond civilization&quot; and abandon the hierarchical lifestyles that cause many of our social problems? He challenges the &quot;old mind&quot; thinking that believes problems should be fixed with social programs. &quot;Old minds think: How do we stop these bad things from happening?&quot; Quinn writes. &quot;New minds think: How do we make things the way we want them to be?&quot;<p> Whether he is discussing Amish farming, homelessness, &quot;tribal business,&quot; or holy work, Quinn's manifesto is highly digestible. Instead of writing dense, weighty chapters filled with self-important prose, he's assembled a series of brief one-page essays. His language is down to earth, his metaphors easy to grasp. As a result, readers can read about and ponder <em>Beyond Civilization</em> at a blissfully civilized pace. <em>--Gail Hudson</em></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[my biggest question regarding the ideas of this book is whether &quot;tribal&quot; work places are enough of a challenge to our self-destructive, doomed civilization.  After all, civilization, hierarchy, and capitalism (as ideas that compete with other ideas) are pretty inventive themselves: they've...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51534601">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was very excited to see what solutions Quinn would present for our &quot;taker society&quot; after expertly pointing out it's flaws in his first three books, sadly he presents essentially none. Very lame. The first three books in the series are amazing though.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although very well-written and compelling in its original thinking, I kept feeling confused and irritated because this book is based on the premise that because civilisation has gone off the rails, going beyond it has to be done through going back to *before* civilisation. The tribal way of life is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65003218">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I know I gave the book five stars, but that's a very conflicted five stars.  Let me explain.<br/><br/>First of all, Quinn's premise (which he sets out in his other books such as Ishmael, Story of B, and My Ishmael {all fiction}) is that our culture's destruction of the Earth is based on our adhere...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18397162">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely painful to read. Quinn has some great things to say, but sometimes he gets way too 'wordy' for his own good.]]></body>
    
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