[b]Barbara Kingsolver
Most people of my grandparents’ generation had an intuitive sense of agricultural basics … This knowledge has vanished from our culture. We also have largely convinced ourselves it wasn’t too important. Consider how many Americans might respond to a proposal that agriculture was to become a mandatory subject in all schools … A fair number of parents would get hot under the collar to see their kids’ attention being pulled away from the essentials of grammar, the all-important trigonometry, to make room for down-on-the-farm stuff. The baby boom psyche embraces a powerful presumption that education is a key to moving away from manual labor and dirt–two undeniable ingredients of farming. It’s good enough for us that somebody, somewhere, knows food production well enough to serve the rest of us with all we need to eat, each day of our lives.[/b]
Yep, that’s how it works all right.
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
Yep, that’s how it works all right.
What do you think people want, if it’s not greatness and to be remembered for all time?
Mostly? I believe people want to eat a good lunch, and then take a good piss.
That and philosophy.
And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn’t really want to eat 700 more calories a day.
She means 700 more calories a meal of course.
So you make a deal with the gods. You do these dances and they’ll send rain and good crops and the whole works? And nothing bad will ever happen. Right.
Lucky for us though there’s prayer.
I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine’s father over the top of the Standard Oil sign.
And who doesn’t have their own rendition of that?