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I like that theory, its like how people today can't stop eating junk food even though they know its bad for them :) Maybe it was a plot by Uruk's Big-Ag pushing
by sriacha 2y ago
I like that theory, its like how people today can't stop eating junk food even though they know its bad for them :)
Maybe it was a plot by Uruk's Big-Ag pushing subsidized barley porridge on the masses and hijacking their gut-brain axis so they left their epicurean utopia in the marshes.
- sriacha 2y agoNow that I think about it a little more, that general idea fits into Scott's framework of the how the constraints of cultivation, specifically that what we cultivate domesticates us in turn. Specifically grain being so calorie dense and pleasurable that we end up becoming beholden to its growth, with significant cost. Look at all the ideas permeating these days about dangers of high carb diets, this book [1] suggesting they make us stupid for example. Or about the link between metabolic disfunction and mental disorders [2] [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333302-grain-brain?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=b48Q9b3tlJ&rank=1 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333302-grain-brain?fro... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjEFo3a1AnI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjEFo3a1AnI