What do you think?
Crops have to be genetically engineered in order to be fit for mechanical harvesting; most are not naturally adept for such a thing.
This leads to monotyping; genetically identical crops that are all vulnerable to the same environmental stressors. Biological epidemics are the result.
People in developed hierarchical and centralized societies undergo a very similar phenomenon.
People are naturally curious and whimsical; they take all kinds of different paths through life. We do not naturally seek to be exploited, overworked, nor boxed into rigid and repetitive routines. And so people must be socialized to regard this as normal.
Does this lead to people who are more similar in mind and habit than is healthy for a society in the long term? A sort of sociological monotyping?
And does this lead to epidemics of the mind? "Mass psychosis" so to speak?
This leads to monotyping; genetically identical crops that are all vulnerable to the same environmental stressors. Biological epidemics are the result.
People in developed hierarchical and centralized societies undergo a very similar phenomenon.
People are naturally curious and whimsical; they take all kinds of different paths through life. We do not naturally seek to be exploited, overworked, nor boxed into rigid and repetitive routines. And so people must be socialized to regard this as normal.
Does this lead to people who are more similar in mind and habit than is healthy for a society in the long term? A sort of sociological monotyping?
And does this lead to epidemics of the mind? "Mass psychosis" so to speak?
26-30, M
