Making a difference

In chapter twelve Ishmael begins to wrap up the whole idea of his teachings. They talk about how man came to be man and how to start making an impact in the world with the knowledge the gorilla passes on to his pupil. Being of the last chapters, and the end of the teachings, these chapter wraps up a lot of the content and helps us make a connection on how we should apply the knowledge to our lives. “Man became man by living in the hands of the gods.”(p.237). This shows how the takers contradict themselves and their ideas, because if the gods where so useless, how is it that through their work man became what they are? Man is a product of the evolution in hands of the gods when we where only another being in the world without control over the others. But once we got to the stage of Homo Sapiens Sapiens and we thought we could do a better task than the gods themselves, we went ahead and thrust ourselves into a revolution with no turn back. And now that our flight is coming to an end in a disastrous crash against the hard rock, we play blinds and keep on driving the world to its limit. “White or colored, male or female, what the people in this culture want is to have as much wealth and power in the taker prison as they can get. They don’t give a damn that it’s a prison and they don’t give a damn that it’s destroying the world.”(p.253). We are drowned in a materialist society in which all of what we want is power and richness without limits because even if we know it’s pointless and empty, it’s the only way to live a taker life, and it’s the way we think we are supposed to live, taking things in our hands. But with the knowledge on our hands, we must go on and teach the others that we are going directly towards the cliff, but that there is also a way to avoid it, if only we work hard enough and together to save our world.