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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!

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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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.

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- rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Well, you must be a real fungi at parties.
  
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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Corn is the vegetation equivalent of a cubicle dweller.

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milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Ah, but you forget, Maizen have a collective identity, so stalks think nothing of sacrificing their individual lives for the good of the whole.

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- tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  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’
  
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  - milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    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.
    
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lena@gregtech.eu ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Giving in to the wheat propaganda, I see

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- tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  YOU BETTER RUN, EGG!
  
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GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Relevant

youtu.be/CmJYZ1NIn1Y?t=64

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notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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)

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