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281. Graeber’s Pirate Enlightenment (W/ Andrewism)

Srsly Wrong

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The Disappointment of a Self-Declared Socialist

There's this appeal of being the subjugator that when people feel like they can get away with it, they sometimes do it. It's disturbing to look at so directly to recognize that there is this this disgusting willingness to turn a blind eye to this kind of thing. There's actually a lot of places in history where you can find a something that's very egalitarian in many ways but then fails some basic test of human decency and egalitarianism elsewhere. In Madagascar, it was considered to be bad luck to sail with women as pirates.

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