The lotos eaters and Greeks going native

If the lotos is a fruit that caused religious experiences and people forgot about their homeland, what is this story also saying?
The fruit was causing people to give up on being Greek? Were the lotos eaters converting people with their rituals and fruit of illumination/ No one wanted to return home, to be Greek, to do Greek things. The peaceful nature of the lotos eaters made the Greeks not try to do them harm, but they restricted people from interacting with them, the unity of religion and experience made many become lotos eaters and forsake their Greek ways. The were taking over the consciousness of the Greeks and the Greeks of the second stories of Ulysses had to bar everyone from contact with this race, well up till they could catch up in the splendor of this experience. Recall this is not the Ulysses of the tackle starting at the beginning of the odyssey but the Ulysses that is represented by the three follies of the Greeks, the Cicones, the lotos eaters and next weeks second look at the cyclopes though the first reading was on the mark. Violent Greeks get their ass kicked by cicones, second the Greeks almost completely assimilate and lose them selves and their culture to the lotos eater and finally the Greeks almost being eaten by the cyclopes as till the cyclops sheep save them and prove the Greeks are someone and that peaceful unity is the only successful way to ally with a people of any race without forcing assimilation that is of course always fought and fails, like on lotos eater land.
ok till next week for real