History: the milk of humankind

There are two great subjects that never seem to be written about frequently enough: that of United States history and information regarding alternative milks. The former is an important subject to stay close to, as history is constantly (and never ceases to be) created, and the choices our governments and societies make for the future will often, if not always, be the same choices of the past, but under different labels. Therefore, history is our greatest teacher, and one that is not always paid attention to. History, however, is also our greatest impairment to future successes: if we choose to live in a world defined by the past, it will undoubtedly be the cause of our ultimate undoing. Case in point: the United States reached peak oil in 1970, and Michael Jackson's Thriller was released in 1982.

Alternative milk was developed from a historical perspective that refused to be held back by the conventions of a prior era. Just as scientists and agriculturalists are now furthering the grand push toward alternative energies to fuel our cars and homes, so too are scientists and agriculturalists furthering the known range of alternative milks, toward the overall enhancement of the organic industry.

The great Oswald Spengler once wrote: "the secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious." This secret lies true for the success of history itself. The non-obvious is often hard to find within the bowels of history; a decade passes, and days and weeks are forgotten as society's subconscious and our schools' history books are further condensed with time (and perhaps even compressed into computer chips). This constant condensing will further the confusions of newer eras if we do not take stock in the truths of the past, as non-obvious and disorganized as they truly are. Historical condensing is a form of organizing, and history, like all organisms, can never truly be organized. Historical analyses are inevitably moistened (if not steeped) in subjectivity, but they are also the oxygen that allow history to breathe--they are what necessitate history's own existence.

Only when we will be successfully running our cars and homes on corn and eating our breakfast cereals from hemp and almond milks, will we truly know the fruitful extents of humanity's labor and intellect. History is the milk of humankind, and just as with milk itself, there shall always be multiple true definitions and facts regarding the events of the past and present.