The Iks

The Iks by Lewis doubting Thomas In the essay The Iks, fountain Lewis Thomas tells the story ab come forth the pocket-sized(a) tribe of hunters in Uganda who had to struggle to represent with others after they were forced by the political sympathies to give up their living and on the job(p) area and move to the poor hills and plough farmers. Because of this, the Iks did non k straightway how to live to specifyher, and they do each others lives truly miserable. The individual Ik was selfish and unfeeling and cared for no unriv every last(predicate)ed but himself.They didnt divide things with each other and found cheer in the others misfortunes. They rase went as far as to let their children go on their own and result food from the elders. To make things worse, an anthropologist, who hated the Iks, headstrong to study them for two years to import a book about them. Thomas thought the air of the Iks was unmoral and animalistic. He and then went on to say that he now involves their look as being standardized to sm solely groups much(prenominal) as a gang and large groups such as cities and nations.I find that Thomas compare of the Iks behavior to any(prenominal) small groups to be unreasonable, whereas I spate see the similarities between their behavior and that of larger groups corresponding cities and nations. I didnt think the comparison of the Iks behavior and that of all small groups was accurate. Now, I dupe seen about small groups, such as gangs, dribble the same type of selfish and heartless behavior as Iks, like when they cancel out innocent people as an creative moivity and their joy when another gang is mazed up.But I have also seen some small groups, such as brotherly clubs, come together to raise capital for other organizations and to supply needs to innocent communities. in that respectfore, I cant see the comparison of all small groups as being fair. As for the comparison of the Iks and larger groups, such as c ities, I can agree with that to a certain extent. I could never forget what happened in this urban center on August 29, 2005. Our families, homes, jobs and schools was taken from us. The urban center decided to save one dissolve of the city, and flooded out the poor part.Sure at that place was wait on from other cities and nations, but the do only went to certain areas of the city. The poor areas was leftover to fend for themselves, and that caused those citizens to make their own laws and they became very defensive and offensive to each other during this time. They broke into the neighbors homes and stole whatever was salvageable and they actually raped the women who was stranded with them. There was elderly people who was dead in there for days and no one knew because they was too busy trying to lenify alive.So I can agree with the comparison of the Iks and larger cities after being station in a bad government agency. I wonder what it would be like if we was piece in a situation like the Iks again? Would we be able to get along in order to help each other out of the bond were in, or would we carry on like selfish, savage beasts and destroy the little that we have? Although I can extrapolate Thomas point about all humans having the ability to act out like the Iks did, I think that we have come so far in our society that we would not want to act like that, because we know that behaving in such a manner will not help us make the situation better.