Daniel Quinn Quote
The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison. [...] Naturally a well-run prison must have a prison industry. I'm sure you see why. Well... it helps to keep the inmates busy, I suppose. Takes their minds off the boredom and futility of their lives.Yes. Can you name yours?Our prison industry? Not offhand. I suppose it's obvious.Quite obvious, I would say.I gave it some thought. Consuming the world.Ishmael nodded. Got it on the first try.
Daniel Quinn
The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison. [...] Naturally a well-run prison must have a prison industry. I'm sure you see why. Well... it helps to keep the inmates busy, I suppose. Takes their minds off the boredom and futility of their lives.Yes. Can you name yours?Our prison industry? Not offhand. I suppose it's obvious.Quite obvious, I would say.I gave it some thought. Consuming the world.Ishmael nodded. Got it on the first try.
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About Daniel Quinn
Daniel Clarence Quinn (October 11, 1935 – February 17, 2018) was an American author (primarily, novelist and fabulist), cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year. Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism, though he criticized this term for portraying the environment as separate from human life, thus creating a false dichotomy. Instead, Quinn referred to his philosophy as "new tribalism".