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by politician 1688 days ago
People in urban areas like yourself only get food from the grocery store, so they naturally treat everything behind that as a black box. You have a learned belief in the “API of the City”, and that’s OK. The API tells you to inject yourself with random concoction that you can’t independently verify and so you do it.

People in rural areas see how food grows directly— from the ground or from livestock. They can get food from the grocery or from their backyard: sometimes the backyard food is fresher and better. These folks don’t trust the “API of the City” to provide for them. That’s OK too. The API tells them to inject themselves with a random concoction that they can’t independently verify and so they refuse.