Unlike in the movies where pirates hunt for gold, in this book pirates hunt for cheese. While reading this story, children will understand that cheese, or rather food, is more valuable than gold.

An uprising that would finally lead to the emancipation of “man as slave.”

The dangers of humans slipping into a state of obeisance to mechanistic inventions has been a pressing issue ever since the industrial revolution. But in 2020, and in the midst of an electromagnetic era and the promise of robots taking over human work patterns, the issue is at the very forefront of concerns for the physical, mental, psychological and spiritual well-being of mankind as a whole.

In schools everywhere, children are asked what they want to be when they grow up, and people try to motivate them for future. For a long time, we have all been going through these processes, looking for answers to the question, “What do I want to do?”

“Mottainai feels like sacrifice at first. Then it feels like the only way to live.”

Mottainai means waste. Popular with the Japanese for generations, mottainai (pronounced moe-tie-nye) is the Buddhist term for essence. One can say mottainai and mean “waste nothing.” Or, if something appears wasteful, one might remark, “mottainai.”