Our book club is reading Ishmael for the month of August 2002. I found this thru connecting with the Science of Mind article regarding homelessness in June of 2002 and the ad for the book Beyond Civilization. I found Ishmael wonderfully entertaining, and a thought provoking book. I must say that the Catholic upbringing and political consciousness did get in the way of reading around the ideals at times. I am struggling with the sense that Beyond Civilization and Ishmael long for a socialist form of life style.How would you explain this "sense" to someone like me who wants to box and explain ideas so as to grasp them. • Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn