Marx said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Fittingly, the titans of the fruit industry did not do anything progressive that would have made the Cavendish [banana] more resistant to disease — aside from dumping more pesticides on it.
September 16th, 2019 at 5:43PM
What a ridiculously moronic and ill-informed article that is.
September 16th, 2019 at 6:06PM
A deeper and more appropriate thought from George Eliot:
“The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.”
September 16th, 2019 at 6:08PM
Anon: You know, I didn’t read the whole thing. Had a bad sense about it.
September 16th, 2019 at 6:09PM
David: Nice.