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  • The article mentions the GMO controversy, then says the seeds are adapted to the climate of Sahel. Don't hybrids tend to revert to one of the parent's genetics after a generation? Would these seeds not have to be GMO? I'm intrigued!

    Food sovereignty is paramount.

  • We can exit the ride at any time. Few are willing to climb out of the top car of the stranded Ferris wheel and scale down, though, and in this case, it's enough or nothing. So far it's nothing.

  • I came with the same excerpt as your first.

    I disagree with the bit about the king, though, because like the monarchy of the UK, he's largely there to force us to bow to the jackal and vulture gods of capitalism. Now we have a choice. Will we sacrifice ourselves and children to those false gods, or make the necessary choice of perhaps more difficult sacrifices to the more merciful egalitarian ideals? We may never realize them, in any lifetime. I suppose that largely depends on how much the collective values themselves over capitalists.

  • I have no idea. We know what the sociopaths are working on singularity. We don't know the species will survive long enough. Maybe a bug? Maybe an extraterrestrial life form.

    Eta: I recently read an article about nematodes organizing themselves into a superstructure. Idk they can survive rapid climate change or not.

  • Outside pressures are often the driving forces of evolution, and affect everything engaged in a particular process. Dawkins talked about this, iirc.

    Anyway, observing a thing changes it. There will always be latent effects. Maybe it's not about individual learning, but collective learning, with a nod to Dawkins.

  • Maybe they are happy. The people I've met living that way seem miserable. That's really all karma is, cause and effect. We either learn or don't. I really believe that the kingdoms of heaven (and hell) are inside us. That doesn't necessarily equate to physical reality, eg, every need met can still leave people miserable, people who seemingly struggle manage to find peace, if not happiness, others who match their physical reality, often we slide among points on the spectrum of being.

    I don't see it as perfectly balanced or absolute equilibrium. I see it as more of a spiral hourglass that flips like the magnetic poles. But that's a whole other discussion and I need to develop that concept, as I just surprised myself with it. That's a sleepy thought.

  • Just because we don't see it or it doesn't look like we think it should doesn't mean it's not real. Imagine being shallow and wanting to marry for how it looks on the outside. Imagine 20 -30 years later realizing you're stuck in a companionless relationship, but refusing to end it because it makes sense on paper to keep it intact.