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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber

Notus & Friends

CHAPTER

The Origins of Society

Theorists have other fish to fry. They are not really interested in the cosmos, but actually in society. Theory of existential debt always ends up becoming ways of justifying or laying claim to structures of authority. If so, it would be possible to see almost all systems of established authority has so many different fraudulent ways to presume to calculate what cannot be calculated. Human freedom would then be our ability to decide for ourselves how we want to do so.

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