Why can't we seem to stop destroying the world? Like seriously though?
Ishmael, the telepathic gorilla from Daniel Quinn's philosophical novel, suggests we're captives of a society where our individual society depends on our collective destruction.
As we embark on our quest through the landscape of ideas in Quinn's novel, we'll travel to a dystopian future where Nazi Germany won the war, meet our long lost furry and feathery cousins, explore a sinister layer where villainous henchman plot the end of the world, conduct an investigation into a planet-wide crime scene, and meet the gorilla we've all been waiting for.
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Citations
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (1992)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/world/sixth-mass-extinction-accelerating-intl/index.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/un-environment-programme_us_684562
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0959378094900035
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By: Ray Lynch
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