• tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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. If that benefits them, then they’re psychopaths.

    Corn is not sentient, and I will die on this hill!

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months 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.

      But everyone knows that the kingdom that’s really in charge is the fungi.

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months 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.

      • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        5 months 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’

        • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
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          5 months 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.

  • Dogsoftulkas@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This is my tune, not only biocentric, but also a very healthy dose of anti-anthropocentric. A species traitor, if you allow me to be as bold.

    I really don’t think that talk about humans being the god on earth, center of the universe, with a metaphysical excuse to exploit everything around us is doing wonders to our health nor long term survival… And obviously the “sapiens” of our epithet is only there because we gave it ourselves chef’s kiss

  • flora_explora@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    5 months ago

    What? Why does no one in the comments mention that plants don’t decompose dead bodies? This statement is just utterly wrong.