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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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The Anarchist, Anthropologist, and Activist, by Inim Greber

Inim greber, an anarchist and anthropologist, says that we can't be fully human unless we have all the same institutions as always including dominante hierarchies. Anything less and were somehow less than human according to graber's ideology. The solution to the battle between hobbseyand hawks and rousseau and doves turns out to be, our genetic nature is hobsian but our political history is pretty much exactly as described by rousseau.

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