If the world is saved, it will not be saved by people with the old vision and new programs. If the world is saved, it will be saved by people with a … - Daniel Quinn

The world will not be saved by old minds with new programs. If the world is saved, it will be saved by new minds—with no programs.

Obviously Mother Culture must be finished off if you’re going to survive, and that’s something the people of your culture can do. She has no existence outside your minds. Once you stop listening to her, she ceases to exist.

The fundamental Taker delusion is that humanity itself was designed—and therefore destined—to become us. This is a twin of the idea that the entire universe was created in order to produce this planet. We would smile patronizingly if the Gebusi boasted that humanity was divinely destined to become Gebusi, but we are perfectly satisfied humanity was divinely destined to become us.

The problem is that man’s conquest of the world has itself devastated the world.