The GMO Faust Bargain: Trading Our Future for ‘No-Stress’ Lies

Don’t be a modern-day Faust

In 16th-century German lore, the scholar Johann Faust traded his soul to the devil for limitless knowledge and earthly pleasures. For years, he reveled in power—until the debt came due. His short-term gains doomed him to eternal torment.

Today, we repeat Faust's error with GMOs: trading ecological sovereignty for the illusion of "stress-free" food. Like Faust, we ignore the fine print:

One day, dem go bring palm nut wey no get seed, una go jump dey happy because now you fit cook your ofeakwu WITHOUT STRESS. The emphasis on the "WITHOUT STRESS", without stress here mean a lot of things, such as: Lazy, comfort, short term satisfaction and selfishness with zero peep 👀 into the future by asking the critical questions.

If this one has no seed (kernel) and we use am along with the local one, won't people stop farming the one with the seed? Because if I don't buy and others too don't buy, won't it mean that there will be no longer a market for the local seeded palm nuts? Won't that then mean a total elimination of the local species?

A fool will say, "and so what?" Who even need dat one? I want soft life ooo, I no wan suffer.

Until someone else who was not even aware nor affected – and as a result, the timing of their thinking process was somewhat late – but manages to ask, "So this palm nut wey no get seed... I mean kernel, na how una dey use plant am?"

Then una go laugh haaaard one because of how mumu you think say di question be (for your mind) – read the next part in the voice and mannerism of Raymond Reddington (James Spader) 🤣🤣🤣

"... and just before she stops laughing, the Prefrontal Cortex inhibitory control will set in and perform one of the nature's most magnificent but often underappreciated neurological wonders by rapidly applying inhibitory brakes to the emotional motor pathways in split seconds! What a wonder of nature."

Then there will be impulsive coughing followed by silence, a momentary loss of hearing and memory, followed by "Wwh what? What did you just ask me? Can you please say it again? I never think am ooo..." Then and only then will YOU begin to realize the depth of the pit YOU have dug for herself and your future generations to come.

And by then it is always too late, because at that stage, dem don buy all the palm kernel dem and we have willingly sold them to buy the seedless ones for easy life. And finally UNA go come figure am out that these seedless ones are produced in a lab and harmful to you, and when some of your relatives complain, your master's errand boy will say: "Instead not to eat and die, it is better to eat and die."

Make of this what you wish, the message has been passed and delivered to those willing to pay for its delivery.