Look man. Mycelium. It's all connected don't you see? I don't mean clones. They're not clones. Its something else. It's one BIG connection. It's one BIG organism.

And it's MASSIVE. You think it's just a little mushroom on the forest floor. But under that mushroom is a string. A string that connects to another string that may be connects to a root or another mushroom. Then strings with no mushrooms between the trees. And the strings outpace the trees.

So the direction the trees grow in? Isn't decided by the trees, or the larger environment around it at all. It's decided by the mycelium. They grow outward, find the nutrients, and set the conditions for seeds to grow there, and change conditions elsewhere.

The war between fungi and bacteria is an ancient and bloody one.

I don't fear the bacteria. No. They can colonize and grow resistance to antibacterials produced by the fungi and chemists. But fungi? Fungi can communicate. Fungi can parasitize. Fungi can grow in radiation contaminated environments.

They are the dominant lifeform on this planet.

And if you still don't believe me, wait until you inexplicably have a yeast infection despite practicing hygiene taught at a super young age. That itch. That pain. It's a higher evolved organism consuming everything.

If all the yeast in our bodies’ microbiomes could coordinate together to take us over, we’d be so screwed.