I like The Matrix as a metaphor at a very practical level too - we've already made it impossible to survive w the "old ways" but hidden it
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Our media, our advertising, we try to pretend this imaginary world of cute little farms and traditional artisans exists
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The reality is we cannot survive anymore without a massive infrastructure of intensive industrial agriculture
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The Earth was starving to death and the "miracle" of the Green Revolution was to keep us going with a concentrated IV of synthetic chemicals
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The next shot in the arm will be mass adoption of GMOs to survive the next big climate shift
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The Machines that we're repulsed by and see as our jailers are really the ICU keeping us alive
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Did you know that in your lifetime all grocery bananas were wiped out by a blight and breeders frantically created a substitute just in time
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Old people say you can't get bananas like you used to and they are right, the Gros Michel breed they used to eat is completely extinct
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There are very smart and well paid people whose job is to make sure you don't notice when production jumps countries, regions, continents
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The contingencies they're putting in place for if/when the honeybee dies out, if the blight that exiled rubber from the New World hits Asia
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If we have to quarantine another continent bc intensive factory farming creates another prion outbreak
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What happens when California's orchards finally drain the state's groundwater completely dry
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"Avocados from Mexico!" made me chuckle bc it was such a banal attempt to put a positive spin on a peek behind the Matrix's curtain
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