Double Naught Spy
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Interesting consideration. Back in the 1990s, I had a prolonged discussion with a very smart man who argued how corn had domesticated/enslaved humans instead of the other way around. The basic gist of his argument was that in making humans dependent on consuming corn for nutrition, corn had managed to get humans to take over numerous processes for corn such that corn could grow larger and stronger. We are so domesticated by corn as service animals that we handle planting, breeding, feeding, watering, protecting of corn during its life cycle (against bugs and large animals that would prey on it) and we protect and store its seed securely over the winter such that the seed will have a higher viability rate during the following year. Because of the domestication of humans, corn has to do almost nothing to care for itself beyond simply growing strong and large.
While humans like to think we domesticated corn, it is actually the other way around. Corn domesticated humans.