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10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything Chapter 3, ”Unfreezing the Ice Age”

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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A Galatarian Origins - A History of Humanity

In the 19 sixties, a version of the left wing agaletarian origins theory basically won the debate. Since that time, it's been assumed that rousseau and marks and angles were basically right. But then humanity mysteriously fell into a state of becoming stuck in hierarchy. And so the solution is that we need to remember our freedom in order to regain our freedom as the authors circularly tell us in chapter one. So now i'm going to explain what the current synthesis version of a galatarian origins is, and why most people with enough expertise to have an informed opinion still believe in it.

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