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242 – The Dawn of The Dawn of Everything (w/ David Wengrow)

Srsly Wrong

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How to Make the Most of Your Commuting

There's been a terrible confusion in the academy ubout actually defining what a state is. Even scholars who are trained in those fields fall into the trap of teleology. The world to day is covered from end to end with mostly capitalist nation states. Inevitably, it's a bit of a fool's erum, especially when you start actually comparing societies and political systems like ancient mesopotamia or egypt. And you realize their all based on completely different principles. There's a very simple explanation, isn't there, for why european style nation states are ubiquitous in the world to day - we all know what it is. It's simply systematic pocinqonia

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