
Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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The American Revolution Was Not a Revolution, Nor Did It Inextricably Lead to Inequality
The agricultural revolution was no revolution, nor did it inexorably lead to inequality. Inequality, even chattel slavery, already existed. The davids present a wave of evidence that pre-agricultural hunter gatherer societies could be incredibly politically diverse and sometimes rival the worst atrocities of modern societies. They zoom into the native american foragers who lived on the california coast line - they observed substantial political differentiation thousands of years into the past.
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