10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street
WHAT IS POLITICS?
Towards a Galetarian Society
The standard narrative is mostly deployed to convince us that while the system we live under might be unjust, the most we can realistically aim for is a bit of modest tinkering. They quote jar diamond to the effect that you can't have a stateless society or direct democracy once you go above ten thousand people. The authors don't mention all the expert anthropologists who think the exact opposite - our galetarian origins prove that we can and should organize in ways that maximize freedom and equality. And they don't mention that the people who argue this the most ardently tend to be the people who specialize in egaletarian hunter gather bands and who know them the best. By only pointing to
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