Sarah Booth

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Most of us, for example, not only do not know how to produce the best food in the best way – we don’t know how to produce any kind in any way. Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato. And for this condition we have elaborate rationalizations, instructing us that dependence for everything on somebody else is efficient and economical and a scientific miracle.
Sarah Booth
Modern man individually has no idea how to produce the food he needs to survive though he has great knowledge of biology and science than his ancestors. Our ignorance of the core knowledge or our ancestors will be our down fall.
Think Little: Essays (Counterpoints Series)
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