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10.4 What Causes Seasonal Social and Political Structures? The Dawn of Everything Chapter 3:

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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The Importance of Individual Consciousness

Materialism and agency are not opposed to each other. Materialism is simply the context in which freedom and choice are exercised. Without it, we throw away our best tools for understanding why people make the choices that they make. So now let's get into the book and let the cartoon beginso this part of the chapter starts off with some intellectual history.

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