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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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Everything Is Just Magical Choice and Theatre

Anthropologist manvir sing and luke gloaki argue that there was a lot more diversity of social organization in the paleolithic than the largely agalatarian portrait painted by the standard narrative. They work from the same assumptions about how the environment shapes social structure that everyone else works from. i still disagree with sing and gloaki's interpretation of the facts, but reading it will not make you stupid the way that the dawn of everything will. Everything is just magical choice and theatre. Their words, not mine,. We'll see when we cover chapter three or four.

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