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Another Sapiens reader. Look, I don’t care how uppity those maize are – there’s no way they trained us into cultivating them, we slaughtered their brothers and sisters and kept only the tamer, weaker, fatter renditions that we could use for our own means.
Corn is not sentient, and I will die on this hill!
that was an edgy idea in the book, but stuff like that happens in ecological systems all the time. I read the book around the time of the election, and it read like a manifesto to justify oligarchic takeover as the next phase of human development (see the part how societal rules where assigned to the government and how the internet will take it back)
Ah, but you forget, Maizen have a collective identity, so stalks think nothing of sacrificing their individual lives for the good of the whole.
if they compete for sunlight and happily smother their brethren in this fruitful pursuit, then they’re no better than us at chucking each other under the bus in the name of this so called collective ‘progress’
So what you’re saying is, maize domesticated us, but it’s also sociopathic and generally evil, and probably believes in eugenics with a side of racism.
Giving in to the wheat propaganda, I see
Corn is the vegetation equivalent of a cubicle dweller.
Relevant
I feel like I heard this perspective elsewhere…it may have been The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. Which I really enjoyed, myself.
But everyone knows that the kingdom that’s really in charge is the fungi.
Well, you must be a real fungi at parties.
Symbiosis
And yet we’re here for it:-)
This is some Trump level zero sum understanding of mutual benefit.
OP is probably going to be appointed Secretary of the Interior to shoot all the DEI trees and end woke oxygen.
Lmao perhaps, make breathing great again (note: I do not support trump, this is just a joke)
Fwiw, you are on Lemmy now: (virtually) nobody thinks that you support Trump:-D
Awesome, thanks for the heads up.
I just didnt want to have people think I am a trump supporter tho.
I looked up what “fwiw” means, was not disappointed
Today I learned that some people think that’s what it means. And here I meant it as in “Fuzzy Wuzzy Imma Wiggly”, but to each their own I suppose!?:-P
Jokes on them, we’re going to put carbon into the atmosphere faster than they can process it raising the global temperature to the point of extinction
The circle of life
Wouldn’t fungus be more immediately interested in being among us?
More like fungsus
This is why I don’t eat edibles lol.
Yuval Noah Harari light heartedly raises the question in his book Sapiens, of whether men domesticated wheat or wheat domesticated humans.
Humans went from wandering through the world exploring and foraging, to doing the back breaking work to grow and farm wheat.
Wheat went from being fairly unsuccessful in evolutionary terms, to covering something like 20% of the earths surface !
Something similar is suggested to a lesser extent about psychedelic mushrooms by Melvin Sheldrake in Entangled Life. No where near the same scale as wheat, of course.
Oh really?
Then let’s accelerate climate change. I won’t let those green fuckers win
That’s too slow. Take us to defcon one.
I’m Jewish, so unfortunately, Kanye has already taken me to death con 5. But I’m not sure if those are related.
Actually Kanye took you to Death con 3, then admitted he chose the because he couldn’t remember if 5 or 1 was the worst one.
That’s right! Besides food, clothing, housing, tools, weapons, erosion control, and beauty, what have the plants ever done for us?
Brought peas?
They literally just fucking sit there, I’ve seen Jumanji I know what they could do, they just choose not to
have you seen them in cemeteries, thier roots easily penetrates a casket and suck the corpse dry. also works on asphalt and pipes.
Medicine. A lot of plants are used in medicine as well. Asprin came from tree bark.
Okay. Food, clothing, housing, tools, weapons, erosion control, beauty, oxygen, and medicine. But other than that, what have the plants ever done for us?
Also oxygen…
Won’t the extra CO2 just help the heartier plants (weeds) take over?
Reminds me of this modern classic: https://youtu.be/Cf2Q-McO_Fw
Thanks so much for posting that. I hadn’t heard it before and loved it
Cue music: “It’s the circle of life”
Oof! Cool perspective
We all give back in the end one way or another.
So deep!!
