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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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The Anamami, or Otse the Bogman, Are Farmers, Not Foragers

The way of life of the anamami or otse did not exist on planet earth for the first several hundred thousand years of our existence. The authors are somehow shocked that many left-wing anthropologists are trying to get rid of the idea that humans have a galetarian origin, he writes. He says it's ultimately right wing thinking, thinking justifies hierarchy. And if we look at things in this way, we'll spend less time judging people and more time trying to think about which are the con tions that lead to the crappy situation we are in, and how can we change them?

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