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10. David Graeber & David Wengrow’s The “Dawn of Everything”: The Wisdom of Kandiaronk

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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The Origins of Social Inequality

The term equality is a default term referring to that kind of protoplasmic mass of humanity. The agaletarian people are those who have no princes, judges, overseers or hereditary priests and are generally without cities or scriptures. They are societies of equals only in the sense that all the most obvious signs of inequality are missing. To understand our present predicament as a species it is absolutely crucial to understand how these things came about. But we must reject the idea of treating our distant ancestors of some kind of primordial human soup.

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