"The Fall" and Totalitarian Agriculture

There is a phenomenon in theology called "the Fall". It entails man's fall from the grace of God because he partakes of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This is the mythology I want to address here as is relates to our culture of Totalitarian Agriculture.

10, 000 years ago (8,000 B.C.) a revolution began. It was a revolution of epic proportions. This is a story that has been told over and over again. It has even been chronicled in some parables of the Holy Bible. However, you won't find this story in the history books because, as some might suggest, this is when OUR history began.

This was no ordinary revolution, as we might define--a relinquishing of power by some government that has been overthrown or some previously oppressed people rising up and overtaking their oppressor neighbors--this was a revolution of the mind. Let us call it the usurping of the knowledge of good and evil from the gods (God, in the monotheistic belief). However, our understanding of this knowledge is false and has been tainted as the story (OUR history) has been handed down over the past millennia. Indeed, the actual knowledge that was "imparted" in order for this revolution to take place is false.

The knowledge of good and evil that Adam (which is translated from a Hebrew word meaning man) obtains is not that he was naked and should be clothed. The knowledge that caused, what Biblical scholars call "The Fall", is a sense that man (Adam) has been bestowed with the God-given right to decide what beings (plant or animal, including other men) should die and which shall live and the power to execute this ordinance to its full extent. Now, this statement may be a bit disconcerting, so I will explain what I mean in the context of Ishmael, the book I'm referencing for what I have stated here.

In the book, the teacher, Ishmael, tells a story about a discussion the gods have pertaining to the administration of the world. They stumble over whether to let one animal, a quail, live at the expense of the life of another animal, a fox. For instance, disallowing a fox to eat the quail would bring curses of the gods from the fox. Likewise, allowing the fox to dine on the quail, would bring curses from the quail caught in the jaws of the fox. Being of great conscience, again and again, the gods fumble over decisions of this nature since, surely, one action is good causing the other to be evil. One day, one of them recalls their creation of a tree that contains the knowledge of good and evil. They decide to eat from it and are soon presented with a lion and a deer. The first day the deer is spared, and the next, the lion is allowed to eat the deer. As soon as the deer is caught, it begins to curse the gods. The gods' reply to the deer is that they possess the proper knowledge to know what shall live and what shall die, and so they tell the deer to be at peace with its fate because they hold this knowledge. The deer then dies at peace with the decision of the gods.

You may be wondering what this has to do with anything, let alone totalitarian agriculture... Well, I'll tell you. When the totalitarian agricultural revolution began, people decided that if any animal or plant were to disturb their crop or livestock, that animal (or plant) must die in order for our food to live. Not only that, but these beings (wolves, moles, weeds, etc) must be eliminated, in total, in order for us to maintain or expand our available territory for agricultural endeavors.

Furthermore, the Caucasians who began this revolution (at least in what is now Europe and Asia minor) decided to expand South into what we would call the Fertile Crescent. But for their expansion to be complete, the Semites who lived there had to be exterminated. The Caucasians (descendants of people originating in the area near the Caucus mountains) in turn slaughtered or caused the forced migration of these people. In the story of "The Fall" this is believed to be the story portrayed by the slaying of Abel (Semites), the herder, by his brother Cain (Caucasians), the tiller of the ground.

It is all tied together by the mythology of Eve, taken from a Hebrew (Semitic) word meaning "Life". So, when Adam (man) was given to partaking of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (who shall live and who shall die), Eve (Life) was given to him abundantly, creating a population explosion and making him the father of our culture, but not many nations, which will come later.

To recap, totalitarian agriculture is a system of agriculture where, when a farm is threatened, all of those who threaten it are exterminated or have their food resources removed from the land required for the production of human food. The more food that is produced, the more humans we see. The more humans we have, the more food we need to feed them. And increasing the amount of food we need means increasing the amounts and types of beings that must be eliminated to expand food production. This system is completely and utterly at odds with a community biology law called the Law of Limited Competition, which I will explain in my next post.

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