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Ishmael

The book Ishmael has opened my eyes much more than any other book I have read. Quinn does a good job at using the Socratic dialogue between an (intelligent) gorilla and a human, as the former teaches the latter about captivity. The premise of the book is that humans have put ourselves in a jail, a jail in which we see ourselves as the rightful heirs of the world and everything that has ever been created. This assumption has led us to basically destroy the world from: animals (where we take land from them to build farms) to each other where only particular groups are seen as fit to survive. New discoveries don't really excite us because in the end it's the rightful place of humans to have discovered it. Anyways, I'd recommend anyone to read the book.

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