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242 – The Dawn of The Dawn of Everything (w/ David Wengrow)

Oct 18, 2021

01:50:00

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David Wengrow

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The Dawn of Everything

01:42

Agriculture, Is It a Bad Idea?

05:52

The Origins of Inequalities

05:01

Introduction

2min

The Dawn of Everything by David Graybirde

2min

The Dawn of Everything Is Yours

2min

The Origins of Inequality

4min

The Origins of Inequalities

5min

The Revolt at Totahocan

3min

The People of Tio Tahuakon

2min

Don't Donate to Seriously Wrong

2min

Why Did the People on Thi Reegan Make Decisions to Have Slave, but Their Neighborhoods Abolise Slavery?

2min

10.

The Agricultural Revolution

5min

11.

Neolithic Farming Systems Just Didn't Work That Way

1min

12.

Agriculture, Is It a Bad Idea?

6min

13.

The Origin of the World's First Cities

5min

14.

The Origin of the Noble Savage Trope

2min

15.

In Dialogue, Yo

2min

16.

The Noble Savage Myth

3min

17.

The Myth of the Noble Savage

3min

18.

How to Make the Most of Your Commuting

4min

19.

The Origins of the United States

2min

20.

The Urasian Era Is a Very Different Era Than the Americas and the Europes

5min

21.

What's So Exciting About Anthropology?

3min

22.

What Are the Implications of Using the Lidar Technique?

4min

23.

The Dawn of States and Markets

3min

24.

Anarchists, You're Just Not Getting This

2min

25.

Oos Think Markets Are Inevitable

2min

26.

What's the Story of the Revolution in 300 Ad in to Tahuakan?

1min

27.

What History Tells Us About Human Nature

5min

28.

The Dawn of Everything

2min

29.

Where Does Inequality Come From?

4min

30.

A Book Review - A Very Good Look at the Past and the Future

3min

31.

I'm Going to Bei Three Years

3min

32.

The Eccentricity Float

3min

33.

A Paper Mache Head Is Starting to Burn, a Rainbow Coming Out of His Head

2min

34.

The Story of Tio Tahuikon

2min

35.

The Best Selling Book of All Time by David Graber

2min

36.

Is the Roman Legal Right to Abuse and Destroy Your Property?

2min

37.

The Origins of Slavery

3min

38.

The Relationship Between Domination and Property

2min

The Wrong Boys are joined by David Wengrow to talk about changing human history (starting with the past) and his new book, co-authored with the late David Graeber, on myths about the origins of human society, why both Hobbes and Rousseau are wrong, and why human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.

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Links:
Buy “The Dawn of Everything”: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/616885/the-dawn-of-everything-by-david-graeber-and-david-wengrow/9780771049828
How to Change the Course of Human History: https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/
Hiding in Plain Sight: Democracy’s indigenous origins in the Americas: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/democracy/hiding-plain-sight
Graeber and Wengrow on the Myth of the Stupid Savage (Video – 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvUzdJSK4x8
David Graeber & David Wengrow Teach-Out (Video – 2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNbWlD-lqYQ
Graeber/Wengrow: Paleolithic Politics & Why It Still Matters (Video – 2015): https://vimeo.com/145285143
Slavery and Its Rejection Among Foragers on the Pacific Coast of North America: A Case of Schismogenesis? (Video – 2018): https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/philippe-descola/seminar-2018-03-22-10h00.htm
Unfreezing the Ice Age: The Truth about Humanity’s Deep Past (2021): https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/19/unfreezing-the-ice-age-the-truth-about-humanitys-deep-past
Forget ‘Liberté’ – 17th-Century Indigenous Americans Knew a Lot More About Freedom Than Their French Colonisers (2021): https://novaramedia.com/2021/10/19/forget-liberte-17th-century-indigenous-americans-knew-a-lot-more-about-freedom-than-their-french-colonisers/
Rethinking cities from the ground up (Wengrow, 2019) – https://medium.com/whose-society-whose-cohesion/rethinking-cities-from-the-ground-up-73d92059b15f

Correction: The Wrong Boys mispronounce the word “Teotihuacan” (Saying ‘Teo-teh-hoo-i-can’)- It is actually pronounced “Teo-Tiwa-Khan” (/teɪˌoʊtiːwəˈkɑːn/)

Opening Theme Song by E June
Closing Theme Song by Spam Risk:
https://spamrisk.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

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