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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber

Notus & Friends

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The Cross River Society and the Bali Society

We need only imagine what would be likely to happen in our own society if a group of space aliens suddenly appeared, armed with undefeatable military technology. Groups like the aro confederacy represent an all too familiar strategy deployed by fachists, mafias and right wing gangsters everywhere. Such mafias, too, almost invariably end up inforcing a strict code of honor in which morality becomes, above all, a matter of paying one's debts. Were this a different book, i might reflect here on the curious parallels between the cross river societies and bali,. both of which saw a magnificent outburst of artistic creativity. Cross river ecpay masks were a major

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