You can't do what you want

In the film Lawrence of Arabia, Sharif Ali and T. E. Lawrence exchange these lines:

Ali:  A man can be what he wants, you said.

Lawrence:  He can, but he can't want what he wants, this determines what he can want.

The "this" in that statement, referred to Lawrence's skin, meaning that he couldn't desire to want things an Arab could want, only things an Englishman could want.

Well, that's become the case with farming in this country. And that's something that should concern us.

Farming is the most basic, or elemental, of all occupations.  Only  hunting and fishing, which are not  professions per se, are more elemental.  The desire to own land to farm was one of the primary attractions to immigrants entering this country, and for some immigrant cultures, it was the single biggest enormous attractant.  People like to cite things like "freedom to worship" and the like, but except for certain distinct cultures, such factors weren't the primary motivators.  Land was a nearly universal one.

But now, you just can't get into it, or at least you nearly can't.

And this is not a good thing at all.  It isn't good for our society, and it's bad for individuals.