We didn’t domesticate grain. Grain domesticated us.
That and for a long time we used grains to supplement our hunting and gathering, it was a bonus and it didn’t require to spend so much time on it.
It’s when we went full time, increased our population cause of the higher calories that we kind of trapped ourselves in agriculture
Reminds me of this one
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
Still my favourite book. I love his humor so much, and it’s just stuffed with it line by line from one end to the other
[The house] was about thirty years old, squattish, squarish, made of brick, and had four windows set in the front of a size and proportion which more or less exactly failed to please the eye.
Probably didn’t help me in my fondness for run-on sentences and interjections, that book, did it
I’m just after finishing reading of the Return from stars by Lem which is a book about a star traveller that comes back to earth after 120 years to discover how the society, culture and everything else changed and how he doesn’t fit to any of it.
This meme is deep.
I know this is a meme but it worked just as expected.
