In this article from the NY Times the author discusses the origins of corn as we know and consume it. I find it quite revealing that the domestication of corn took, perhaps, thousands of years. These changes do not happen overnight. In retrospect, our take on history is compressed into a few short paragraphs of text. Even now, when we speak of climate change, and peak oil, and what not, we take on this kind of inevitability that “all of a sudden” we are in for a serious reckoning. If we were to look at this from the lines in a history book who really knows how it would all look? We need to plant our gardens regardless the outcome, whether fall or not. After all, what is the right thing to do? What actually motivates our decisions? Is it that we do these things out of reaction or that we do them because it is the right thing to do?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/science/25creature.html?hpw