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10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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Social Theory and the Consensive Narrative

Social theory is largely a game of make believe, in which we pretend, just for the sake of argument, that there is just one thing going on. In graber and wangro's own words, we should be clear here, social theory always necessarily involves a bit of simplification. The problem comes when, long after the discovery has been made, people continue to simplify. Most anthropologists think that the cartoon version is still a pretty good elevator pitch,. Despite all the supposedly contradictory facts that comprise the dawn of everything. Their whole book is based on throwing out even the idea of having reasons for things.

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