Indoctrination or Ignorance? 28-Year-Old Woman Learns You Can Eat Fruit From a Tree

Rumble ^ | February 10, 2024

[logi_cal869]

This goes directly to my characteristic slur, “Use that tool in front of you.”

How people - especially the young - can be so ignorant of the world around them - regardless the topic - with a tool - phone/pad/pc/etc. - that’s connected to the world and the repository of human history is beyond my comprehension.

I have zero patience for self-imposed ignorance and stupidity among adults.

[Sacajaweau]

I’m 80...My grandparents were born circa 1888. So my great grandparents were born say 1858 and my great-great grandparents were born say 1828....so I agree with you as this being most probable.

[Sacajaweau]

LOL...My brother had a newspaper route. One night he climbed the gorgeous Cherry Tree....I was down below....The back yard light went on....we waited silently...It went off. What an adventure and the cherries were great.

[SunkenCiv]

Not for long, if the ecoterrorists get their way.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember years ago when two city boys in the military were talking how peanuts grow on trees.

Couldn’t believe what I was hearing!

https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/11156738-peanut-growth-stages-vector-groundnut-timeline

[Albion Wilde]

One of my favorite childhood memories is the overgrown trail between our Baltimore-Washington area suburb (rapidly-constructed post WW2) and the equally new shopping center. It was alongside an abandoned farm, and a stretch of rotting split rail fence was lined with long-unpruned blackberry bushes. Nothing like pulling ripe blackberries warm from the sun right off the prickly briars and gobbliing them down!

[Albion Wilde]

I wouldn’t just pick a piece of fruit off a tree and eat it. I’d certainly wash or peel it first. No telling what kinds of pesticides or other chemicals might be on it.

The tree was in her yard. She would have known if there were pesticides.

[PAR35]

The tree was in her yard. She would have known if there were pesticides.

I must have misunderstood. I thought the whole point of the story was what what a clueless idiot the 28 year old woman was.

[Albion Wilde]

We have chickens so abundance of chicken manure for fertilizer. We were informed that is too nasty to use for fertilizer. We need to use organic fertilizer but could not tell us what to use.

Sounds like when I worked retail. I told the manager that we could be more efficient if each cashier station had a hand calcuator, and they were on sale at Staples.

I said, "Should I pick up half a dozen?"

She said, "That's too many."

So I said, "OK, how many should I buy?"

And she said, "Six."

[Albion Wilde]

My grandfather said his father was good friends with Jonny Appleseed

How wonderful! He was a remarkable man who did so much good for our new nation! A very interesting life, for anyone wanting to look into his bio.

[T.B. Yoits]

“Self-imposed ignorance” is a great term. Kudos to you.

[Albion Wilde]

I thought the whole point of the story was what what a clueless idiot the 28 year old woman was.

A person raised in a city or suburb can be totally clueless about agriculture, completely lacking any experience or exposure in that area, yet have a great deal of other kinds of knowledge, and certainly the situational awareness to know if she or someone else has sprayed the lemon tree in her own yard within the past fruiting season — or not.

I grew up in suburbs, and only realized the connection between the shrink-wrapped packages of chicken from the grocery and the live chickens that run around farmyards at age 18 or so, when my mom finally let me do some of the cooking. Yet I went on to acquire several degrees and had a long career with Fortune 500 companies in a field related to human knowledge processing.

Many have written about the exhausting information overload of today's society. There is more information available to the average human than ever before in recorded history of the First World. No one can ever know about every single thing that touches their world.