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I finally watched the DVD by Michael Pollan. I am beginning to really love his work, even though I've only fully read one of his books "In Defense of Food" which opened my eyes to a lot of things. I've finally gotten around to getting to the end of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" after years of saying I would.

But I really loved this documentary, it changed my perspective on plants in agriculture and on how they might see their roles (control) in our lives if they had consciousness. I loved how he focused on just 4 domesticated plants, apple (sweetness), tulips (beauty), marijuana (intoxication) and potatoes (power). I was so in love with the plant world afterwards, a somewhat mezmorized by what they are.

I find Michael's way of detail and explaining the history of the subject fascinating and rather simple, without the deep scientific jargon, even though you can tell it is well researched, painstaking detailed in putting it together, yet eloquent and kind of poetic. Maybe I having residual effects from the view of tulips.

Anyway, I'm considering getting the book and curious of someone else got the same feeling from the book that the DVD delivered.

What puzzles me at this point is why it took so long for there to be a Darwin and his studies when man has been cultivating plants for at least 12,000 years, everything that was "discovered" 100 or so years ago, has been going in our domesticated plants right before our eyes.