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10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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Social Experiments in the Middle Paleolithic

Culture is an adaptation to environment. That's how a super general, jack of all trade species like humans can survive all round the world. When nomadic big game hunting and gathering was no longer viable, people started focusing on other types of hunting practices. These new conditions either caused new problems that needed new solutions or they gave some people bargaining power advantages over other people. And these changes in economic activities resulted in changes of the circumstances of people's lives. If your economy is based on territory and you manage to monopsony for anyone who has access to that territory, then you have power over others - this is why we see so much hirarchy among hunter gather societies. Once farming

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