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10. David Graeber & David Wengrow’s The “Dawn of Everything”: The Wisdom of Kandiaronk

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The Enlightenment in All but France Was Still an Absolution Monarchy

If rousseau had actually proposed any real solutions at the end of his bookke, if he had called for the overthrow of the monarchy and the church, he would have ended up in jail. In a way, his concept of human nature priortise freedom, but it was also fundamentally anti social. According to rousseau, it's almost society itself, social ties and obligations that are what oppress us fundamentally. The second every person isn't totally self sufficient, you are oppressed. From the moment it appeared advantageous to any one man to have enough provisions for two, equality disappeared. Property became indispensable,. vast forests became smiling fields, which man had to water with the sweat of his

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