Interests so far in Guns Germs and Steel

Jack Gross

So far in Guns, Germs, and Steel there has been one main point that I really liked, I really liked how on
page 18 that author talks about how he doesn’t assume that industrialized states are “better” than
hunter-gatherer tribes, or that the shift from one to the other represents progress or increased happiness.
I really liked this point because it made me think about what I thought was the “Best” type of society and
I realized how subjective the word best is, a type of society that is best for some people could be horrible
for others, and that our change towards our types of government hasn’t been all good (which is the way
that we make it seem) and that other systems are much better at other things but worse at some parts,
we have all been striving to create the perfect system that everybody likes, but that is just impossible.
It made me think about how so many systems of government sound great in theory but they aren’t as
good as they could be because of human error/greed. I was also able to relate this to the Narrative of
the Life of Frederick Douglass which we are reading in ELA, in both of them people in positions of power
such as the leader of a country, or a slave owner, often get even more power hungry which leads to bad
things and to remedy this people take power from the leader decentralize it and spread it amongst
others, such as requiring leaders be voted into their positions, or abolishing slavery. (I'm sorry for going off
on such a long tangent but I found the connection interesting)

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