I interviewed Daniel Quinn on April
5th, 2013. This is part two of a two part
interview. Here is a
link to the audio podcast. This is part 2 of the interview
transcript. Part one is
here.
Thanks to Don
Caldarazzo for doing the transcript.
Daniel Quinn's book, Ishmael, about a
telepathic gorilla, won a Ted Turner award for book with a hopeful
vision of the future. It's become a bestseller translated into many
languages and I recommend it as must reading if you've never read
it. This portion of the interview discusses the book AND his
thoughts on civilization, beyond civilization, the Sixth Extinction
and the disaster that hierarchy is...
Rob Kall: This success doesn't
seem like such a good thing
Daniel Quinn: (laughs)
Rob Kall: - to most of the
people.
by Yinghai
by Yinghai
Daniel Quinn: Yeah, that's
probably true, but what I'm trying to direct them to is: to look at
the foundations instead of picking at individual things.
Saying, "We've got to stop being dependent on petroleum.
We've got to develop alternative renewable resources for
power. We've got to get rid of gasoline powered
automobiles. We've got to stop polluting the air, the
greenhouse gases. We've got to stop doing the things that are
causing climate change." These things, these particulars -
rather than to look at the underlying organization - that says,
"This is the way. It may be terrible, but this is the way
people were meant to live. There is no other way. There
is nothing beyond civilization."
Rob Kall: Can I read the final
two paragraphs that you sent me on this?
Daniel Quinn: Yeah.
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
Check out his platform at RobKall.com
He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet (more...)
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