Let's mechanize it, take out the weeds, spray chemical weapons, mechanize it, spray chemical weapons and in 12 months...look we got sugarcane. Well yeah, it'll deliver.
If you tell your son: "hey asshole, do what I say," and you demand and you demand, you'll domesticate him, and he'll even fear you. "Of course dad, what can I do for you."
I'm telling you man the same way they raise their kids, they're growing their cane. That's how they are man.
First, let's really understand things, and once we do we'll say "hey man these plants are pretty badass." More badass than us.
The plant doesn't ask for a house, it doesn't ask for a car, it doesn't say "I'm headed to the gas station for snacks."
It's just there, out in the open, getting its water, growing, adapting. It's got a brutal resiliency.
They want to make photosynthesis more efficient, tell the scientists to go fuck themselves.
How about we give them the environmental conditions they need? How about we stop making them sick?
You know what photosynthesis will be for them? A modification they'll make so the cane makes more sugar.
It's all in an economic focus, because they're looking through a fucking microscope.
"Oh we discovered the mysteries of life! The proteins are linked by amino acids, and the amino acids by an amino group and who knows what..."
Sure, but all that's interconnected, interrelated with everything at all levels. It's in a constant state of change, always growing and always dying.
An infinite process of rebirth and decay. That's life.
A professor of mine would say "life is a constant recycling of shit."
Now those are the paths man: impose your will on nature and say we know whats right, we're going to solve life and humans have all the power, which is a lie.
Yes we have power, but not the power over everything and much less over life. We have power over our lives and our decisions, which is a very big power and a big responsibility.
But never, never ever, will the human be able to create a leaf that can photosynthesis. And if they do, my respects.
But can they make it at the level of efficiency that a plant can? Part of something as small as a seed? No way.
It's that fucking pride that makes me angry.
It's that fucking pride that excluded biology from our economic systems. It's that fucking pride that makes me sick.
The one that all the cane growers have, all the technicians, technologists, that fucking pride. I don't tolerate it.
I could sound pretentious saying it, but at least I know I'm a dumbass and I'm not afraid to accept it. I know I don't know anything.
I can tell you all these words, but I don't understand photosynthesis.
You're telling me that the plant captures this ray of light and generates sugar and other complex molecules?
And then with that it builds fucking proteins and amino acids and is capable of symbiosis and shoots out its roots...you get it?
Nah man what pride is that?
We're an expression of life, just an expression that was given a consciousness so it can see itself and question life. We're the only ones that do that.
It's a beautiful trait, but its for changing your perspective and seeing that really we're in the infinite...
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