“Born” Takers

“…the people of your culture thought that man was born one of you. It was assumed that farming is as instinctive to man as honey production is to bees.” “Yes, that’s the way it seems.” “When the people of your culture encountered the hunter-gatherers of Africa and America, it was thought that these were people who had degenerated from the natural, agricultural state, people who had lost the arts they’d been born with. The Takers had no idea that they were looking at what they themselves had been before they became agriculturalists. As far as the Takers knew, there was no ‘before.’ Creation had occurred just a few thousand years ago, and Man the Agriculturalist had immediately set about the task of building civilization.”