On page 52 Thom Hartmann discusses the theory of large animals such as woolly mammoth, saber-tooth tiger and giants sloths actually going extinct by humans and not the ice age. Thom goes on by giving examples of this theory "He suggests that those animals hunted into extinction were the ones who had few natural predator and were therefore unafraid of this new, small, hairless animal" (pg.53). This new concept is super intriguing to me, because in fiction films I have seen them portray hunters taking down a whole woolly mammoth and I couldn't understand how humans were not threats to those larger animals.
On page 126 Thoma tells about how basic knowledge now in days are things like knowing a movies stars last name but knowing how to set a bone is rocket science. That we are not aware of anything going on in our country let alone the world. Companies "... suppress news stories so effectively that most citizens of Vermont, for example, don't know that over 35,000 pounds of a chemical banned in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria and other countries is sprayed on their feed corn every year" (pg127). The way the government/large corporations control our whole damn life has always puzzled me, and the fact that some people know it and don't care has puzzled me even more. The topic of the corporations controlling the media is one I want to know more about, how and why is that still going on or how did it even start.
On page 184 the topic of modern-slavery is brought up and I think it says what we all are afraid to say, that the fact that we as a society are pressured to get to the "normal" stage in life where you need to buy a house, get a car, get credit cards and have bank loans is not what we all really want in life. "The slave-holders use the chains of the mortgage owed to the bank, the loan on the car, the unpaid credit cards bills..." (184), is an example that Thom gives of how we are really modern slaves without freedom. The concept of these things being the norm is weird to me, why must I have a home to achieve success in life? This topic is something I would want to look more into and see why certain things are seen as a success and a must have in life.
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