3 ms·
"Corn is not a _food_. Corn is a _platform_." https://twunroll.com/article/1074810043495796736 https://twunroll.com/article/1074810043495796736
by cess11 4y ago
"Corn is not a _food_.
Corn is a _platform_."
https://twunroll.com/article/1074810043495796736 https://twunroll.com/article/1074810043495796736
- Supermancho 4y agoThe silly way they connect corn to bananas annoys me, which you could do for literally anything, corn -> fuel -> lights -> you ate near a light ergo CORN! I don't see how this is anything but good. Having a single crop for so many things, makes the replicator go brrr. Yes it's a single point of failure, but it's efficient to use food production to scale everything else and it's not a dead-end if corn were to have problems (ie Interstellar)
- ch4s3 4y agoCorn has been the platform for civilization(s) in the Americas since agriculture was invented in Mesoamerica.
- cess11 4y agoArguably civilisation and market are orthogonal so the marketisation and commodification under capitalism means there's very little civilisation as well.
- ch4s3 4y agoI have know idea what this string of words means in context. Agricultural products, especially staple grains are all commodities, definitionally: "a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee." In the Inca store house system for example, potatoes were the central commodity, and all types of foods stuffs were made from the freeze dried potatoes. In MesoAmerica corn was used for food, drink, animal feed, and so on.
- mouse_ 4y agoGreat read. Starting a corn religion bbl.