The narrative of primitive agriculture serves a specific function: justifying the replacement of sustainable local food systems with industrial agriculture dependent on external inputs. This narrative claims traditional farming is backward, inefficient, unable to feed growing populations. The solution always involves destroying farmer autonomy—replacing saved seeds with purchased varieties, organic fertilizers with chemical inputs, diverse crops with monocultures, local markets with global supply chains. Farmers who fed their communities for millennia suddenly need experts, chemicals, and debt to grow food.