Debbie Does Drivel

If you've ever wondered why our culture associates success with material growth, why we all seem to need someone to tell us how to live, or why we so often treat the planet as our possession, when we know that treatment creates consequences we can’t control (i.e. that our planet can't in the longterm sustain what we take from it (and do to it)), then I suggest you read "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.

This book is fiction, but it can change your world view (or even your life, dare I say), if you let it. It completely reframes our reason for existing and our origins. It explains where we're headed if we don't start living more responsibly and respectfully.

I really don't think everyone will respond to it or are ready to read it. Maybe you have to be older, more disillusioned, or more sensitive than you are now, though I don't think that's it. I think you have to strongly feel as though something needs changing in your life or in the world. I think you have to feel that politicians and those who run the world don't really get it. Or, feel as those there is a larger "something" at play in our culture that we're all not getting...

Either way, read a chapter or two and see if it's for you.

Oh, and it helps if you like gorillas....