Culture as “a people enacting a story”:
The word “culture” is notoriously polyvalent, and Quinn/Ishmael proposes his own definition: a culture is “a people enacting a story” (1992, 41). Most of the world’s “civilized” societies, notwithstanding their apparent diversity, turn out to be enacting the same story, namely that “[t]he world was made for man, and man was made to rule it” (1992, 72). Alternative lifestyles exist among the primitive societies, whose prevailing ethos holds that “[m]an belongs to the world” (1992, 239) rather than vice versa; and that “[t]here is no one right way for people to live” (1999, 183). Instead of “civilized” and “primitive” cultures, Quinn speaks of “Takers” and “Leavers” (as in “take it or leave it”), cautioning that “[t]he Leavers are not chapter one of a story in which the Takers are chapter two” (1992, 42).
the above excerpt from this chapter is included in the post being and doing … and not doing
The CEO of Axel Springer interviews another Taker:
Jeff Bezos is a Taker some consider dangerous:
"Jeff Bezos is an extremely dangerous plutocrat who is forming extensive ties with secretive government agencies while buying up media influence and working to control the way money itself moves and operates in the world."https://t.co/dqB8200AXd
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) October 3, 2018