Farming is Why Humanity is Fucked

Lightning can strike the same spot many times. Goldfish can remember things for months. Bulls are colourblind. Vikings didn't wear horned helmets. Napoleon wasn't short. When I was looking over the topic for this month's IndieWeb Carnival run by Alex Hsu, "No Way!" the first few ideas that popped into my head were the most obvious. The well-known facts that weren't facts at all, but really, the truth about these facts is usually already well-known. Anti-facts, if you will. It's a fantastic topic, because it makes you pause and recollect on when you've had a real epiphany. An actual paradigm shift. And I suppose I could write about something like how the scrip system was designed to fail and speculators bought scrip from Métis families for pennies on the dollar before they'd even received their land, which is why so many ended up landless and pushed west. Or that the "barter came before money" story taught in every intro economics class has no anthropological evidence behind it and…