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Funnily enough we try to cultivate everything we like, so in a roundabout way they were successful.

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I think the book Sapiens makes the point that wheat has trained us into cultivating it for selfish needs.

(Except that it’s wheat, and that we annihilated 99% of its brethren to pick out the one that we liked so we could effectively clone it. But yes, we are the slaves…)

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Sapiens and Homo Deus are both such good books. Lots of little anecdotes like that we’re just so fascinating.

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I think that’s basically what The Botany of Desire is about, right?

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I guess… If you consider factory farmed chickens to be “successful.”

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Nicotine, THC, and cocaine are also insecticides. And psilocybin might be an insect repellent.

Thanks poison!

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Drugs - natures mosquito repellant

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Mosquitoes are such squares!

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So that’s the reason I’m not stung as badly as my friends!

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Capsaicin is a fungicide, which is extremely useful in the environments where spicy peppers grow.

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The best bit about the mint and chocolate thing is that chocolate is also poison, so we spice up our poison with more poison.

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All valid Points. But also, humans: i will care for this plant and create huge fields where you can live prosper and in peace. We kill everything who comes near you and try to harm you. And we will ensure you will live forever. You dont need birds who shit your seeds out.

Those plants domesticared us!

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Also humans: we will breed you until your fruit no longer bears seed, because we decide when and how you reproduce

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Sidenote: monocultures are devastating, long-term.

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Botany of desire

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Basically humans will have sex with you, eat you, or make you a pet.

Sometimes more than one.

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Don’t forget we wear them also…

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