"Why does it matter that Cain was a crop farmer and Abel was a shepherd? With agriculture comes grain you can store, which leads to notions of wealth, which leads to laws, courts, police, hierarchy, patriarchy, taxes, accounting, bureaucracy, and high-fructose corn syrup.

Modern civilization as we know it cannot exist without massive cropland. Today, when we meet roaming shepherd people, we say they are backward and tell them their way of life needs development (in other words, that they need to become agriculturalists like us.)"