by FERENC IVANICS
Leaving Eyipantla there were more and more sugar cane fields around us. We tried this plant in Africa as well, it’s sweet and fibrous. It’s a good pastime chewing it, though it’s a bit hard on the teeth.
Due to the modern cultivation technologies sugar is cheap, and it’s a common nutriment here in the Latin world. You see lollipops in the mouth of children and adults as well. But sugar is half-nutriment, half-drug, when one is eating sugar, life turns a bit sweeter too, problems seem to vanish for a moment. Maybe that’s the reason why it’s so popular here.
There was a Russian philosopher, Vladimir Solovyov, who thought that when World Peace comes everyone will stuff their cheeks with sugar. 90% of humanity will become obese and hysteric, the rest will go insane and commit suicide. Sugar creates illusion, who knows, Solovyov might be right.
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