10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street
WHAT IS POLITICS?
Why Do We Have Various Degrees of Male Domination?
Every single nomadic pastoral society ever known to exist, from northern scandinavia to the deserts of arabia have all been male dominated. This is one of the best known and easy to explain paths to male domination,. But it's totally absent from the dawn of everything, because the authors don't want us to think about conditions. In the short term, people might make different choices in similar situations, but our range of choices is usually pretty limited. If you make a really bad choice in terms of defence or subsistence activity, and you stick with it, you're going to die out. Which leads to varying degrees of patriarchy.
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