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10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything Chapter 3, ”Unfreezing the Ice Age”

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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Dominance Hierarchy Is Not a Choice, It's an Imposition

Before 12 thousand years ago, humans were basically agaletarian, living in what he calls societies of equals. And outside the family, there were no dominators. Estom and bom never said that people were strictly a galletarian. For example, he takes male dominance for granted, which i don't agree with. But more importantly, and more shockingly, the authors criticize bom for thinking that human beings didn't explore a wide variety of social arrangements. That seems pretty unrealistic. What greber and wangro are doing is like reviewing the bible and completely leaving out and then acting all confused about how the jews crossed the red sea. So another big pile of pinoclio

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