Corn. A staple diet for many around the world, and a big component in food, agriculture and profits. But a few things linked together when I saw a couple of articles and gave it more thought, thinking of a few storylines here and there too.

Interstellar – where the film shows how it’s because of ecocide the planet is dying. Corn crops failing having a main mention, and ecocide meaning it was caused by human hand. I took it as we genetically engineered crops, it went wrong and doomed everyone.

Hybrid corn – we already eat hybrid corn they say as we have changed it over the centuries to be what it is. South America still having some of the original strains. So, there have already been changes made beyond what we know.

Bioengineering corn to create sterility in people. No, really. In an article from 2001 – GM crops to stop man spreading his seed, it explains the process to force sterility on people through food. Crazy stuff, eh?

Bumper harvest – apparently the US has recorded a rather good crop this year. Makes me wonder about certain ‘shortages’ being caused and reported, if maybe they then use that to flood the market with a specified source of corn.

Seed banks – many have questioned the true purpose of seed banks they have strategically placed around the world, for plants and people. In my mind it’s there as a fresh, untainted source of new stock. To skip the infected or contaminated stock, or to use once you have cleared it away when it has been deemed necessary. Sounds cynical, but it’s how it looks to me. Allowing many areas of society to be poisoned with toxins, chemicals and tinkering of all sorts of things. Putting great strain and pressure on the environment and those trying to thrive on it and in it. Downgrading it to a survivable habitat at best, definitely not as thriveable as it could be. All the while keeping the good grade stock for themselves somewhere else, or for a re-seeding program. Which may have already occurred in the past already, so we don’t even know if what we have now is original. It’s looking increasingly as though it is not.

Children of Men – the film, and how it envisions a future of sterility, by way of a virus no less, where humanity hangs on a thread. I wonder sometimes if viruses have been used so many times in films to make them a viable option in our minds. So, the other true methods can be hidden in plain sight and perhaps not even noticed.

Children of the corn – not the story by Stephen King, as that bears no relation to this. But the title sticks out to me. Making me think that the children of the corn would be the last normal generation with the new infertile version and that it will be the offspring of that generation that will be sterile. It’s hard to know really where it is headed as there really are so many points of interest to follow, but follow them I will, as best I can, to try and see where this crazy ride is going…

(c) K Wicks