Leavers are no far primitive as Takers get to be. This section of the novel develops another perception towards Leavers, who are supposedly meant to be uncivilized, in the book described as “repulsive”.
As said in the passage, “We’re on our way to discovering why you feel you must carry the revolution forward even if it destroys you and the entire world. We’re on our way to discovering what your revolution was a revolution against.” (pg.217), explains how our culture is always beside all odds. We were the ones who made this future to ourselves; we were the creators of this destruction. In opposition to Takers, Leavers are always interrelated to the environment, something that seems quite archaic to our culture, nonsense, proves stupidity as well. The novel continues establishing the idea that Takers are no better than Leavers, a thought applied by Mother Culture since the beginning.
Mankind is constantly, growing in a technological way. They have wide options to what to wear, what to eat, where to go, anything they want, they can have it. In that case, the excerpt, “Then the gods will finally have no more power over us. Then the gods will have no more power over anything. All the power will be in our hands and we’ll be free at last.” (pg.228) shows the ambition and greed of humanity toward their future, their gods, and their relation to nature. Takers are fundamental to this point; they seem to think it’s just the start, the beginning of an entire life to go ahead. What they are warned by some, but then are forgotten and left behind, they are destroying as they are “developing”. Only they are leading themselves to devastation.
What comes into matter is how man became man, not by effortless evolution, but a further more analysis by Ishmael’s pupil. As a reader, one tries to define this affair, all understood by the context of Takers and Leavers. When Ishmael says, “And this is what your revolution does for you: It puts you beyond the reach of that appalling nightmare. It puts you beyond the reach of the gods.” (pg.229), he illustrates the final concept of how man became man. Basically, this was due to man living in his own hands, unknown to what is left, to what they have vanished. Then the author acknowledges new terms for Takers and Leavers, “The Takers are those who know good and evil, and the Leavers are . . . ?´ `The Leavers are those who live in the hands of the gods.” (pg.229) Reading you realize, is life really worth it? Are we in a path of uncorrectable mistakes?
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