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7. The Origin of Social Hierarchy and Male Dominance: why David Graeber and Jordan Peterson are Wrong

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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Galetarianism Is an Important Value in the First Place

There are cultural institutions to smooth over gender and other tensions inherent in agaletarian societies. Among the imboti, there's a tug of war of the sexe's ritual that you can read about in colin turnbull's books. If the men's side starts winning, a man will run off to the women's side where he'll then imitate women in a mocking way. And then when the women start winning, a woman willrun off to the men'sside and start mocking masculine speech and ideas. This continues until everyone has switched sides, and the women are all acting like carricatures of men on one side, and the men are allacting like caricatures of women

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