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Because Ishmael is technically a work of fiction, it does not have an index, which can be frustrating if you're looking for a particular idea, definition, or whatever. While an index of sorts was put in Beyond Civilization including things in Ishmael, I felt it was missing a lot of the important ideas, so with that in mind, I made this index. Certainly other things could be added to this index, so if you have any suggestions please me or sign the guestbook.
Index to Ishmael
Another story to be in 90, 214
the Agricultural Revolution 152-154, 215-216
the Bwana conversation 222-227
Cain and Abel 173-181
Definitions:
culture 41, 198
to enact 41
the Law of Life 129
Leavers 38
mythology 45
story 41
Takers 38
Hippies 5, 25
how things came to be this way 40, 51, 62, 74, 82, 85, 89, 120, 167, 203
humans to be teachers of other species 242
the increase of food production 135-140
Ishmael
his benefactor, see Sokolow, Walter
his disappearance 189-197
his naming 18
his past 10-24
his stories, see Parables
Fertile Crescent 170
the Genesis Story 154-184
Semites as authors of 169-181
The Law of Life 103, 117-135, 142-146
Laws of Aerodynamics 97, 142-144
living in the hands of the gods 226-229
man belongs to the world as Leaver premise 239
Mother Culture 37, 40, 42, 53, 87, 91, 98-104, 146, 148
Mythology:
civilization as human destiny 218
creation myth 51
food production without population growth 136
global population control 136
humans are exempt from Law of Life, 120, 144
humans are flawed 82, 119
humans are outside the community of life 100, 120, 144, 146
humans as purpose of creation 57, 59
humans needed to create order 145
Leavers as chapter one, Takers as chapter two 42, 68
Leavers as Noble Savages 146
Leavers' lifestyle detestable 216-229
Leavers too primitive for Takers' problems 146
"Nature red in tooth and claw" 71, 117
no knowledge about how we ought to live 87-88, 96-105, 204-207
Takers have one right way to live 167
Takers as humanity 201
Takers more competent than the gods 228
"This is the price of becoming human." 75
world as human life support system 59, 69
The world was made for man 61
...and man was made to conquer and rule it 73
...and under human rule it was meant to become a paradise 82
...but tragically, man was born flawed 82
Parables:
Aryans destroy all other races 26
Jellyfish's creation myth 54
The Hapless Airman 105-110
A, B, and C meat 113-116
the Knowledge of who shall live and who shall die 156-164
Peace-keeping Law, see Law of Life
Population Growth 131, 135-140
Leavers' Population Control 140-142
Semites 169-182
Sokolow, Rachel 22
Sokolow, Walter 19
the spread of farming 153-154
the student's past 4-6
the student wants a teacher for life 122
the story Takers are enacting 42-46, 59-62, 67-84, 89, 146-148
the story Leavers are enacting 147-148, 212-215, 228-229
Taker world as prison 251-253
Takers and Leavers 38, 42
Takers killing Leavers, see Cain and Abel
Takers
their lack of population control 180
their beginnings 154-184
their forgetting of the past 200-204
"With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?" 9
"With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?" 263