Nah.
"Why did agriculture come to be? Because Thog got tired of chasing antelopes and bashing them on the head with a stick for food. He didn't want to wander around the woods looking for berries, he wanted them right outside his house."

That's a lovely view in hindsight, but given the complexity of actually building a worthwhile agricultural system, and that settled hunter-gathering can actually be hugely efficient, it's vanishingly unlikely that agriculture was developed intentionally. In short, Thog had never seen a farm, it's much more likely that the idea developed gradually by a process of serendipity and trial and error.

Incidentally, your interjection sounds massively annoying given that the lecturer doesn't sound like he was endorsing Marxism, that he probably did have something interesting to say in the 10 minutes that you used up, and that a huge proportion of the class probably had the same idea but just chose not to voice it.
(flimflam_machine, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 16:12, Reply)