The Rise and Fall of the Medici's Pope

There's a lesson of anthropology, or his anthropology anyway, is that if a societal arrangement has existed and does exist, it could exist somewhere else. And so yeah, he doesn't know for sure that this is how the pirates lived in, in La Bertalia. But it's possible because there are other societies that were structured that way. So if even if it turns out he's wrong, he's not wrong because it's impossible. And if it's not impossible, then we can do it. Right? Because what we do matters,. Like there is even in moments that are hugely constrained by the forces of history, there's always room for human agency. That's the anti authoritarian