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... qualifications to enter bureaucracies are typically based on some form of knowledge that has virtually nothing to do with actual administration.
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 11.
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Each day the adult men of a town would gather to spend much of the day arguing about politics, in a spirit of rational debate, in conversations punctuated by the smoking of tobacco and drinking of caffeinated beverages.
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 11.
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Living in unbounded, eternal, largely imaginary groups is effectively what humans had been doing all along.
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.
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Humans tend to live simultaneously with the 150-odd people they know personally, and inside imaginary structures shared by perhaps millions or even billions of other humans. Sometimes, as in the case of modern nations, these are imagined as being based on kin ties; sometimes they are not.
In this, at least, modern fora... MESSAGE CLIPPED
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.
FULL TEXT: 8/8 https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1333#p1333
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... the mere fact that much of the world’s population now live in cities may not determine how we live, to anything like the extent you might assume...
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.
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Very large social units are always, in a sense, imaginary. Or, to put it in a slightly different way: there is always a fundamental distinction between the way one relates to friends, family, neighbourhood, people and places that we actually know directly, and the way one relates to empires, nations and metropolises, p... MESSAGE CLIPPED
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.
FULL TEXT: 6/6 https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1331#p1331
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CW: thread 21/
There's a brief section in Chapter 3 of #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow's #DawnOfEverything where they argue starting from a common evopsych claim: hierarchy-seeking behaviour after groups pass a certain number is an adaptation from our simian ancestors. Social inequality, therefore, is an effect of genetic destiny. Some erudite Pleistocene archaeologists, "forced to confront" recent evidence of royal burials and commons areas, propose no alternatives. Open and shut case, right?
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This is not, then, a book about the origins of inequality. But it aims to answer many of the same questions in a different way. There is no doubt that something has gone terribly wrong with the world. A very small percentage of its population do control the fates of almost everyone else, and they are doing it in an increasingly disastrous fashion.
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 2.
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If... future... hinges on our capacity to create something different... then what... matters is whether we... rediscover the freedoms that make us human in the first place... We are projects of collective self-creation... What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such?
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 1.
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Reminds me of Graeber & Wengrow's observation that lack of funding for archeological digs has skewed ancient history to be, predictably, Western-centric.
As they point out in The Dawn of Everything: "There is no 'original' form of human society. Hafted tools have been found in South Africa 80,000BC but the gap btw then and widespread evidence of figurines, flutes, burials, etc 40,000 years later is called "the sapiens paradox." Recently, it seems funding for archeologic digs explains the gap. Panga ya Saidi in Kenya around 60kBC and cave art in Borneo and Sulawesi are recent finds." #Graeber #Wengrow #archeology #DawnOfEverything
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Whatever criticisms can be made of David Graeber's work, and of Graeber and Wengrow, much of the criticism is clearly in bad faith or just awful. #graeber #wengrow #DawnofEverything
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#History #Graeber #Wengrow
The criticism of #DawnofEverything in https://zenodo.org/record/5907061#.ZAIfNR_MKUk
(thanks to @ann_leckie , @bretdevereaux )
reminded me of criticism of #1619 and #PeoplesHistory which combine "everyone (in my tiny specialist area of academia) already knew this" with "I disagree with the interpretation, so it's dishonest/slipshod."It's impossible to read DoE and not understand it is a polemic and often a stretch. But it's interesting, often illuminating &well written & accessible.
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Well, #adhd did it again. Right now my Interest List is:
- #muvco
- assemble mixer pcb that came back last week
- read #midi files
- two voices
- think about low-part-count implementation idea for #polysynth #synthdiy
- work on #geometricalgebra problem sets (from good-so-far book: https://geometricalgebra.org/)
- take birthday present manim course (https://www.manim.community/, but more than basics)
- read Empire of the #Ants and #DawnOfEverythingThat on top of a real job and a #honeydew
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Anfänge - Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit
Autoren: David Wengrow, David Graeber
https://www.klett-cotta.de/buch/Geschichte/Anfaenge/414379
(en: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity )
Das Buch hat mich erfüllt weil: Es zeigt das eine andere Welt, eine andere Gesellschaft möglich ist und wirft die Frage auf: Warum sind wir in unserer Entwicklung im kapitalistischen System stecken geblieben?
#DavidWengrow #DavidGraeber #Anfänge #DawnOfEverything #MeinGutesBuch
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About the Wyandotte people (traditional: Waⁿdát): "Prisoner sacrifice was not merely about reinforcing the solidarity of the group but also proclaimed the internal sanctity of the #family and the domestic realms as spaces of the female governance where #violence, politics and rule by command did not belong. Wendat households, in other words, were defined in exactly opposite terms to the Roman familia." from #DawnOfEverything by #Graeber and #Wengrow.
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#community #organizing #patriarchy #safety