Comments on: Triffids http://rajpatel.org/2010/02/08/triffids/ Website and Blog of writer, activist and academic, Raj Patel Mon, 14 May 2012 06:10:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Alena http://rajpatel.org/2010/02/08/triffids/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Alena Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:40:04 +0000 http://rajpatel.org/?p=1522#comment-277 Sounds ironic...perhaps they are a gift from God.....to replace hemp....they appear to be as tough as hemp....and since hemp has been played down as a replacement for fuel...perhaps these "weeds" would do the trick....let them grow and harvest them and convert them to something that is useful considering their so plentiful. Wouldn't that be a kick in the buttocks to Monsanto and their buddies they work with in cahoots. Be great to see it get turned all around and the laugh would be on them. Sounds ironic…perhaps they are a gift from God…..to replace hemp….they appear to be as tough as hemp….and since hemp has been played down as a replacement for fuel…perhaps these “weeds” would do the trick….let them grow and harvest them and convert them to something that is useful considering their so plentiful. Wouldn’t that be a kick in the buttocks to Monsanto and their buddies they work with in cahoots. Be great to see it get turned all around and the laugh would be on them.

]]> By: Mark http://rajpatel.org/2010/02/08/triffids/comment-page-1/#comment-231 Mark Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:09:33 +0000 http://rajpatel.org/?p=1522#comment-231 Raj, this reminds me of the following from Singularity Sky by Charles Stross: "You don't fight an infowar attack with missiles and lasers, any more than you attack a railway locomotive with spears and stone axes. You don't fight a replicator attack by throwing energy and matter at machines that will just use them for fuel. They'd nodded approvingly and gone on to discuss the virtues of active countermeasures versus low-observability systems. And they still didn't get it; it was as if the idea of something like the Festival, or even the Septagon system, occupied a mental blind spot in their civilization. They could accept a woman in trousers, even in a colonel's uniform, far more easily than they could cope with the idea of a technological singularity." Raj, this reminds me of the following from Singularity Sky by Charles Stross:

“You don’t fight an infowar attack with missiles and lasers, any more than you attack a railway locomotive with spears and stone axes. You don’t fight a replicator attack by throwing energy and matter at machines that will just use them for fuel. They’d nodded approvingly and gone on to discuss the virtues of active countermeasures versus low-observability systems. And they still didn’t get it; it was as if the idea of something like the Festival, or even the Septagon system, occupied a mental blind spot in their civilization. They could accept a woman in trousers, even in a colonel’s uniform, far more easily than they could cope with the idea of a technological singularity.”

]]> By: Roberto Sassi http://rajpatel.org/2010/02/08/triffids/comment-page-1/#comment-212 Roberto Sassi Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:32:04 +0000 http://rajpatel.org/?p=1522#comment-212 Mr. Patel, i've just read your book "Stuffed and Starved" (in italian "I padroni del cibo"). I'm an anthropology student at the university "La Sapienza" in Rome, and I can say that the reading has greatly changed my point of wiew about the social impact of modern agricutural economy. Really, I think that it could improve my academic life, but also my existence,'cause my attention to the many questions like shameful international business and ethical trade is now extremely steady. I say thank you for the activity of popularization, i'll try to do the same, in my own small way. Roberto Sassi Mr. Patel, i’ve just read your book “Stuffed and Starved” (in italian “I padroni del cibo”). I’m an anthropology student at the university “La Sapienza” in Rome, and I can say that the reading has greatly changed my point of wiew about the social impact of modern agricutural economy. Really, I think that it could improve my academic life, but also my existence,’cause my attention to the many questions like shameful international business and ethical trade is now extremely steady. I say thank you for the activity of popularization, i’ll try to do the same, in my own small way.

Roberto Sassi

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