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

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The Poems of a Galetarian Society

Authors make it sound like evolutionary psychologists are all right wingers who think that dominance is our nature. No one in recent times ever says or even impli anything about primordial innocence. Authors have some demented bugaboo where they think that anyone who talks about a galatern societies is, by definition, seeing those societies as childish. The more i read these chapters to prepare for these critiques, the more i think that much like torgot, greber and wangro think that a state of true equality and true freedom can only be a state of childishness. They just hate the idea almost as much as any right winger does, if for different reasons. And we'll

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