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10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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Why Is This Book Half Baked?

Like occupy wall street, the book destructs because of some really foolish theoretical confusion and nonsense. The authors make all sorts of claims, but ultimately everything they discuss in thi 700 plus page book is gear towards one half baked message. I say that this message is half baked because what does it even mean to choose a social structure when different people have different ideas and conflicting interests? Do women in traditional patriarchal societies choose to be second class humans ? Why do some people get their way and other people don't? None of these questions or concepts ever arise in this book. And like occupi or the 13 81 revolt, this gaping theoretical blind spot will set up readers for pro political failure and wasted

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