Hasahni P.
“In order to become fully human, man had to pull himself out of the slime. And all this is a result. As the takers see, the gods gave the same choice they gave Achilles: a brief life of glory or a long, uneventful life in obscurity. And the takers choose a brief life of glory. (p.75)”
Ishmael is trying to explain to his pupil that man had to become more that jest another creature on the world and in that result they had to change from being hunter-gathers to being agriculturalist. And this part explains itself, the gods gave as us the choice to have a brief life of glory or a long life uneventful life of nothingness and we choose a brief life of glory. In other words if someone gave you the choice to have a life of fame and fortune but you only lived to be 50 or to be a farmer but you lived to be 100 what would you choose? For my it depends if I live a health life while I am 100 then I may do it, the bad thing about that is I would have seen a lot of death and I really do not have to say this, everyone wants fame but I would not want to do that if I am not going to be happy so my choose would be live to be 100 and I am not saying this to sound like a better person.
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