Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Books about Community/Utopia

[Gary D. Shapiro (garyes]

Daniel Quinn's ideas are not utopian, but about having the best type of human 
culture possible. And that's more or less what we've had for 99.7% of human 
time on this planet. It's mainly only the last 10,000 years that have been 
#%$#%@ up. Of course 6 billion of us can't go back to that 99.7%, which is why 
his new book is called **Beyond** Civilization.

You might not have a clue what I'm talking about, but in any case, y'all should 
read BC or start first with two or three of the other books. I think a lot of 
what I'm yearning for, that I believe cohousing will provide some of, is what 
Quinn is talking about.

I just wrote a review of BC for a newsletter. It was positive. At amazon.com, 
last I checked, the average review rating was *****.

Check out the Quinn web sites starting with

<http://www.beyondcivilization.com/> and explore the ishmael site especially.

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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:10:18 -0500, brian [at] trillium-hollow.org wrote:

>What list about community/utopia would be complete without the books by
>Daniel Quinn:
>
>Ishmael
>The Story of B
>My Ishmael
>
>And his latest:  Beyond Civilization
>
>Brian Setzler
>Trillium Hollow
>Portland, OR

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"Don't go where the path leads. Rather go where there is no path and leave a 
trail."  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gary D. Shapiro   <garyes [at] iname.com>