Recently, I had impure thoughts, and expressed them via an online poll given by my alma mater. It occurred to me that this was terribly unwise. The poll pretended to be confidential but no one could believe that. What if I were outed?
At first, I thought I might compose a set of brave communiques to be issued as protesters circled my house chanting and my credit card ceased to work. But upon mature consideration, I decided that (1) there is no defense against such vilification and so (2) I might as well enjoy it. Fiendishly.
Don't let your enemies quote you, force them to.
This philosophy has informed all my online posts. If any Politburo member condemns a site and publicly notes that I contributed to it, I'll say: "Yeah. And?" And then an apparatchik will rummage through my posts and breathlessly inform a flabbergasted world that I once said No cat ever asked, "Where will I be in five years? Where will cats be in fifty?"
Be all that as it ever may, I did compose a brave communique, and one pertinent to scholarship! Agricultural scholarship. There is such a thing.
I aim to develop massively distributed agricultural production of high-value consumables.
I envision farmers in the loosest sense of the term - any person who owns acreage of any size on which anything can be grown - growing some or all parts of those consumables, harvesting them when other such farmers have complementary parts, then assembling them.
Spread over the U.S. and possibly including Canada, Mexico, and Central America - that is, over a great range of latitude - such enterprises could employ vast numbers of people, serve still more, and smooth out or avoid famine-to-feast-and-back-again cycles.
Historically and for that matter prehistorically, agriculture has striven to yield items that are immediately recognizable and useful (e.g., fruit, vegetables) or readily processed (e.g., oilseeds, fibre).
Other items - energy-dense combustibles, pharmaceuticals, hybrid polymers - might however be better derived from multiple sources. Indeed they may not be found in their complete, ready-to-use form in any single plant.
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