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...-the Christian gentlemen of Europe specifically for the production of sugar. No other reason. The stuff which came later, the tobacco and the cot...

... this one fungus which then converts the plant material into a usable sugar. This is a symbiotic relationship between the fungi and the ant. The ...

... or transforming human values and society. A perfect example would be sugar. Most people don’t even think of sugar as a drug and yet, we may thin...

...kind of muck, which looks sort of like ah.. maple syrup, half gone to sugar. I wouldn’t get near that, actually. It means [02:11:00] they- they b...

...fences to get to rotting papaya and butterflies hang out as dishes of sugar until their little legs are clawing the air but human beings are of a...

... get to rotting papaya and butterflies will fall over beside bowls of sugar. But we addict to dozens of substances. We not only addict to substan...

...is - cultures don't see this - we do not think of ourselves as a meat sugar alcohol culture - people do not walk around saying "oh wow i'm so hig...

...in the nineteenth century, payed people to have children, because the sugar industry was so labor intensive? So that, so in order that white suga...

... They bring the right spores in and grow them there and it produces a sugar which the ants then eat. They tend the fungal gardens and remove fore...

...against the velvet rope with their chattering description of it, like sugar-crazed five year olds, and that cooler heads have to come in and look...

...ormous part of the world economy runs on drugs, so -- and always has: sugar, coffee, teas, spices – drugs, drugs, drugs.Uh, so, it would be a muc...

...eberg or something! And alcohol… our society is an alcohol, red meat, sugar and tobacco culture. And all of these are forms of speed, basically, ...

...er major drugs of commerce, which would be alcohol, tobacco and white sugar. I think it comes off as in the best position. I sort of think of it ...

...now that elephants intoxicate on papayas and bumblebees get loaded on sugar-water, but human beings addict to dozens of substances, to behaviors,...

...hink about the effect on a culture of the presence or absence of say, sugar; or the presence or absence of coffee. Human culture can essentially ...

...e. We can think of numerous examples, the influence, for instance, of sugar on the growth of 19th Century mercantilism. Or the way in which the B...

... of great personalities but as a shifting set of interactions between sugar, tobacco, opium, caffeine, uh, alcohol, and psychedelics so that, you...

... in the Amazon anyway which is high starch, uh, uh, low protein, high sugar, very few green vegetables kind of diet, may predispose the, these pe...