242 – The Dawn of The Dawn of Everything (w/ David Wengrow)
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The Origins of Inequalities
Both of them were invented by european philosophers in these seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The one i've been talking about, how we started in innocence and fell into an equality is, of course, the story that jean jacques rousseau told in his secondi force on the origins of inequality. But there's another one, which is also still quite popular, and it starts even earlier with the thomas hobbs. And this one says, we still begin in tiny bands of hunter gatherers, but they weren't nice at all. In fact, they were very nasty and brutish and competitive. And it's only by taming those basic instincts that
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