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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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Smoky De I'm Talking to You Now Might Sound Like a Liberating Message if You're High.

Review after review of this book talks about how liberating it is to be free of the sha s of the conventional narratives. Everything you know is wrong, but there's nothing to replace it with. Nothing happens for any reasons besides magical choice, which doesn't really mean anything. After a roller coaster of 700 pages of fascinating facts and anecdotes from a dizzying array of fields, the authors have no answers for us to their main thesis question: How did we get stuck in these awful hierarchies?

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