Challenge #01923-E099: They Call Her Queen Badass — Steemit
Humanity is only two and a half million years old. Agriculture as a concept is far younger than that. Nevertheless, they have devoted an astonishing amount of the technological arc to alcohol. Brewing it, distilling it, making stronger and stronger concoctions. Making it tasty.
Galactic citizens, upon finding this out, often wonder aloud what humanity had to do with primitive rocket fuel before they had invented rockets. And then there is a significant amount of stunned silence when they learn that humans enjoy drinking it. Despite the fact that it is obviously a dangerous toxin that impairs brain function.
To which humanity says that that was the point and they enjoy temporary debilitation and the case for humanity’s collective insanity is proven once more. And then there’s stuff like fourteen-thousand-year firewine.