QQC #5

"Many peoples among the Leavers practiced agriculture, but they were never obsessed by the delusion that what they were doing was right, that everyone in the entire world had to practice agriculture... They didn't say to the people around them, `You may no longer live by hunting and gathering. This is wrong. This is evil, and we forbid it. Put your land under cultivation or we'll wipe you out.' What they said was, `...We want to be agriculturalists. You be hunter-gatherers and we'll be agriculturalists. We don't pretend to know which way is right. We just know which way we prefer."

Is this really true? Was it really just smooth sailing?

It is interesting to me that Ishmael talks about the change from hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists as a peaceful. I was taught that the agricultural revolution was the start of war. The argument started because there are fences. Before there were no borders and no need for the law of respect each others property. The one his new property no would dislike the nomadic lifestyle of the hunter-gathers. The hunter-gather probably didn't understand the concept of the land belonging to people. No one ever said to the hunter-gathers that they had to become agriculturalist but it was like there was another option. If the hunter-gathers did not get some land of there own there there would be nothing left but desert. For I see this as the fall and I find it interesting Ishmael said and thought differently.