Is "Big Mom" == "Mother Culture"? (Daniel Quinn)
As long as you extend your hand to hers, she will surely lead you down the right path, no questions asked.
An aside: I think I should read Ishmael some day, given my environmental and overpopulation concerns. Not to mention, that is a really provocative idea as to how the oral story of the semites came to be.
Hasn't it really all just been about food and water, even as Mother Culture tries to force our hand along the road of myth? Aren't these stories just niceties we tell ourselves as we are gathering/hoarding/locking away resources?