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A Critique of "The Dawn of Everything" with Sam Biagetti

Outsider Theory

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The Wendat or the Osage Have a Great Degree of Individual Freedom

The wendat and the osage have a great degree of individual freedom. Their societies can have very sophisticated ways of obtaining compliance. If you're in egypt, you don't have any freedom to move,. It's the sahara desert. You are not going nowhere. And so in witfogl's argument, that means you get a more authoritarian and bureaucratic society. But it just struck me that graybur and wengrove seemed very cavalier in just ignoring that that basic a factor of how we live'

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