The book is written as a discussion between a teacher and a student, just read until the character finds the teacher and there the book starts
About what we are doing to the planet Daniel Quinn makes a comparison in the movie "Life at the end of an empire" : it's like we live in a very tall building, and each day we take bricks from the lower floors and add them to the top, to raise the building. Not only we destroy our home, but we destroy human nature itself.
We are not "flawed" as humans, the way religions want us to believe. Is a tiger or a fish, or any other creature flawed ? But they don't get to chose their story. The story that we are enacting is flawed. Nothing is wrong with us. German people under Hitler were "enacting" their story of the "Aryan master race"
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One day there will be so many houses, that people will be bored and will go live in tents. "Why are you living in tents ? Are there not enough houses ?" "Yes there are, but we play this Economy game"