When, on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik coup d’état, I published my first book, “People of Red Darkness”, which was supposed to be a textbook of left-wing ideologies, I thought – oh, holy naivety! – that the knowledge and examples collected there are enough to understand the madness of modern times. It must be fair admitted that for six years the left has gone so far in adding and modifying its social projections, experiments, inventions, additional genders, identities, and postulates that every two weeks it would be necessary to add at least one page of new views on such a book. Sex has since grown to over fifty, meat for dinner is a crime, a mix of wheat and crickets is modern, and having a dog or cat in the house entitles you to call yourself a “parent.”
It’s quiet here anyway, the authors of “Wysokie heels” go crazy with “doggy style”, some Monika Strzępka is excited about the image of a vagina in her own theater, some harassment in Homokomando, Trzaskowski draws something so that there is less being cars and more bicycles – it’s really still an idyll, a warm-up, actually it’s still conservatism!
It’s getting worse on the left
Meanwhile, the mainstream of leftism in the West has sailed so far that we, the inhabitants of the Vistula backwaters, cannot fit in our skulls. Yuval Harari calls agriculture in general a crime of humanity, declares an intellectual war against wheat (did you think it would end with meat?), David Graeber and David Wengrow wrote entire books on the subject of family ties or the existence of cities and states with any authority are a mistake of history and you can live without them, and James C. Scott has spent 60 years researching how agriculture has driven us, the world, to a series of catastrophes, such as a decline of human body resistance, human dependence on the weather, human attachment to land, and finally – propositions straight from Engels – the rise of murderous states from which only a new communism can save us.
Let’s collect acorns, let’s hunt crickets!
Interesting archaeological discoveries are mixed with ideological conclusions in these deliberations against agriculture. For example, Graeber and Wengrow show, through settlements of five, eight, or ten thousand years ago, that farming was deliberately rejected by our ancestors because it was associated with adopting a social hierarchy and supporting the physically inactive elite (bureaucracy, priests, power). In their view, like Harari or Scott, the decision to raise plants and raise animals (“Neolithic Revolution”) was a possible one, not man’s only choice, and a bad one. According to them, people in the hunter-gatherer mode were happier, had their basic needs met more quickly, and had more time for rest and entertainment.
This is terrible farming!
Of course, it wasn’t just humans that would be harmed by the idea of growing grains – the worst – according to the new trend of progressive ideologues – is that agriculture has harmed the earth: transforming the landscape, clusters of people, emitting carbon dioxide , produce pollution and encourage humans to exploit nature.
Agriculture also corrupts human character, destroying society, spreading the terrible invention of property rights and giving states that instead
even within this framework, the grain-based kingdoms were fragile, always on the verge of collapse under the weight of overpopulation, the endemic destruction that happens when too many humans, domesticated animals and parasites come together.
In another place, the authors of The New History of Everything argue that agriculture caused wars, in another – that in the past some communities (such as pre-Columbian Cahokia in Illinois, USA) had a taste for agriculture, but wisely – out of fear of despotism – abandon this fatal invention.
When will this get into politics?
The doctrine of condemnation of agriculture has not yet found an author to create a program to exit the world’s agriculture. So while vegetarians have their own ways of replacing meat with soy cutlets or hummus cutlets, the enemies of grain and corn haven’t yet translated their fantasies into a concrete political agenda. But it will happen – cricket flour is just a trial balloon for more action. I wonder if the dream of the new generation of ideologues will be a return to life in caves or rather hunting deer and picking berries for generations. Anyway – just in case, it is better to remember how to make spears from a stick and flint, because soon a new Stone Age will be invented by the bored prosperity of the children of the civilized world.
Source: wPolityce