One question, one thought popped into my mind the other day after class, and yet I wasn’t even thinking “Ishmaelian” either at the time. The thought that I had was the idea that “Can leavers successfully live in a takers world?” I know some of the other students might have touched bases on this, or said it in different terms, but the way I view this idea is in my opinion, that leavers cannot really live successfully and coexist with takers. Why? I believe it is because the leavers will slowly evolve into takers. Since the takers obviously are more technologically advanced, the leavers will adopt some trait to help them survive, much like the topic discussed in class: The Indians didn’t leave their agricultural lifestyle until horses, then they when back to being hunter/gatherers. If the Indians knew that horses could plow the ground, then the indigenous people would have stayed living as agricultural people, right? What about when the native people of Alaska came into contact with Europeans, what did they take, or adopt shall I say, to help them accomplish every day tasks? The natives took the idea of guns and metal knives. However, their mindset stayed the same until America bought Alaska from Russia, so the Alaska Native leaver lifestyle didn’t change until then. But my idea is that takers cannot live side by side with leavers. The takers just end up destroying the leaver’s culture or as fellow peers mentioned in class, we help them so much the leaver’s culture collapse itself. This just what popped into my mind. What if, parse, that the leaver lifestyle could coincide together with takers, what would happen?