[Age of Reason]

I strongly suspect that eating tiny grass seeds and going through the trouble of planting and harvesting them was the result of the population outgrowing our normal food supply

I am sure that is it.

The earth became overpopulated when mankind was forced either to war or to farm.

Unfortunately, our own natures haven't completely adapted to an agricultural economy--leave alone to the industrial revolution.

People pay to vacation camping, hunting, fishing--people pay for the pleasure of experiencing hunting and gathering.

How many would pay to push a plow around a field all day?

[Chode]

Beer/Meed was the foundation of civilization.

Man was a hunter / gatherer of seeds.

One day he ate some seed that had gotten wet and had fermented.

He LIKED the buzzz / way he felt.

It took awhile for him to connect the dots from the buzzz to the fermentation process.

Then he said to himself, instead of chasing the crops, if I stay in ONE PLACE and plant this stuff I can have all the wet grain I need to get drunk on.

Hummm... D'oh!!!

Instant farmer / civilization.

[LPM1888]

People pay to vacation camping, hunting, fishing--people pay for the pleasure of experiencing hunting and gathering.

How many would pay to push a plow around a field all day?

You've just created the latest Reality TV show!