This headline is two steps away from saying ‘‘Our glorious and civil wheat vs Their wretched and evil rice’’.
It’s funny, because even IF we turn our brains off long enough to humour this idea, why exactly should we automatically assume this vaunted “individualism” is inherently superior?
Most people who profess individualism are quite sorry individuals.
yellow man bad for… cooperating to grow the crop with 2-3x higher annual caloric yield so he can feed his community better? smdh my dick head
Implying that people in the neolithic that choice…
MF definitely did not get their degree in Paleo-anthropology
Rice is the superior grain
I love to eat rice
Yum yum yum I gobble up fucking rice.
You know what I like to eat on my rice? MORE FUCKIN RICE
Westerners fucked up on this one. I wanna eat so much rice I fucking die.
Seriously I don’t care what anyone thinks I would always rather eat white rice than any other grain
wheat is capitalism. brown rice is socialism. and then when you have white rice, that’s communism
Jasmine truly is the People’s Rice
Stop it, you’re gonna split the Party. All types of rice are the People’s Rice.
Forging new frontiers in leftist infighting lol
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Lenin failed to consider this
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how did you get my selfie wtf
No brown rice is Timothy McVeigh
There are so many other good grains y’all. Millet, barley, quinoa, oats (great as groats!), bulgur (wheat), etc. Mix and match, the more the merrier!
Critical support for non-rice starch grains.
Most scientifically valid western take on China
Did Neolithic people in Northern China not farm other grains too anyway?
And it’s not like Europe have a good climate for rice farming, those things have historical reasons.
millet was often preferred, and wheat has certainly been a thing for a long time.
Oh hey, this “theory” again. I recall it being forced in Russian liberal circles a few years ago.
ricepilled 🥴
I prefer bread over rice. How does the Economist account that for their theories?
bro, I love rice and wheat, both rice and wheat are indian staples
Same in Italy and we ain’t even in the east
I’m not even a Proudhonist, but these dorks need to read Proudhon.
USSR had wheat and was collectivist wtf
Tzarist Russia before it had wheat too, and peasantry had a very collectivist mindset
not only does the Economist remain the mouthpiece of British millionaires (the Lenin quote needs to be updated to “billionaires”), but it also is just abhorrently stupid
Billionaires get to enjoy their own farts and working class reading that gets a bit more garbage into its consciousness. Being abhorrently stupid doesn’t hurt anybody (except for maybe the advancement of humanity as a whole)
arguably the stupidity in their press is a form of psychological warfare to worsen the thinking capacity of the reader, can’t have the rabble thinking dangerously good thoughts (like those contained in Marxist texts).
must pump idiocy and confusion into the brains of the commoner
Fuck wheat, all my homies hate wheat. hashtag ricegang
I guess eating rice literally turns you into a giant eusocial ant 🐜🐜🐜
nobody has farm experience here?
I refuse to read this article but the growing strategies between rice and wheat are drastically different. Wheat fields can be plowed and direct seeded and basically left to grow by one person. the harvest of course brings the community together. Rice is more complicated, beds need to be tilled but also bermed in order to flood. rice is traditionally started as a seedling then transplanted into a flooded field, which requires a ton of manual labor. the harvest takes about the same collective energy as wheat.
so it seems rice growing is a more communinized process than wheat, yet I’d say individualism was built on elite intelligentsia creating asocial conditions they called ‘enlightenment’ and dictated this stance until it became unashamed liberalism. you can see how the erasure of the peasant commons, the collective farms of Europe, gave way to alienation oops I mean individualism
