Quote: (05-18-2017 07:21 PM)Scoundrel Wrote:
What struck me most about the vid is that these guys have likely been farming & harvesting cacao for years (if not generations), yet claimed not to know what it was used for.
I can't help but think that this is a key insight into the mindset of people in this part of the world. Hardworking, no doubt, but with little intellectual curiosity. They just get up every day and do their tasks in order to eke out a bare subsistence living, with no thought of the larger meaning or significance of their work in the world.
A couple guys in Africa isn't a key insight.
So when Westerners eat chocolate they must wonder where it comes from? hows it grown? who grows it?
Actually they just eat it and enjoy it.