Posted on 01/01/2008 11:54:37 AM PST by billorites
Everyone knows that the desire for the perfect brew was indubitably the beginning of agriculture.
A hunter came upon a hollow in the rocky bed of a mostly dry watercourse where some grains had providentially fallen or blown into the water trapped there, starting a natural process of fermentation.
Needing a drink, the thirsty traveler sipped—and then sipped again. “YUummmmmmm. Og find something here.”
Presto, the wantering hunter became a novice brewer, looking to duplicate that wonderful taste and buzz. It didn’t take him long to figure out that he needed more grain in his pot than was likely to blow in by chance and so he began to nurture the magic plants that gave him the gift of the gods.
I would not be surprised if early agriculturalists traded beer for game from surrounding hunters.
It died a long time before that. I remember reading Margaret Mead in an anthropology class that I took as an elective.
My professor,who was a friend of my mother’s, gushed all over it. I thought it was a total crock as it grated against my world-view rather seriously. I really didn’t have the mental skills at that time to analyze why; I just didn’t believe that Mead knew what she was talking about.
Turned out, she did;she was just lying her head off.
Or... if you’re starving, and grains are all there is to eat, that’s what you will eat.
The radically flawed Rousseauesque anthropology of Marx and Engles is what feeds the “New Age” progressive demographic and environmentalism today and echoes the self-deprecation of neo-Gnositcism wherein physical reality is supposedly a fall from grace or the creation of an evil demiurge. The entire premise of marxism is that classless shared property is the natural state of Man, which is utterly bogus. There is also a hideous hidden agenda of occultism suffusing leftist thought comprising the taboo topic of “esoteric marxism”.
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