10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street
WHAT IS POLITICS?
The Peasant Revolt of 1381
All this bad theory doesn't just confuse or pacify people who accept dominant ideologies and ideas. It also clogs up the minds of those of us who reject them, with disastrous consequences. One of the most spectacular examples of this is the english peasants revolt of 13 81, which they talked about in episode eight. Another more recent example of a situation where you had mass organization bolstered by favorable conditions, all wasted by bad theory. And course, and bring up occupy because one of the big intellectual lights behind occupies spectacular successes and its mindless failure was none other than david graber,. co author of the dawn of everything.
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