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I wonder of David Chapman has written about The Dawn of Everything? I'm only onto the 3rd chapter, but it's already blowing some big holes in the assumptions that underpin the @Meaningness book-in-progress, for example in quotes like this;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116956225889065381
What a shame David Graeber isn't around anymore, I'd like to see a conversation between the 2 of them, and Graeber's co-author David Wengrow.
#Meaningness #DavidChapman #TheDawnOfEverything #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow
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When you look at the archaeology of the Pacific Northwest Coast, you see that they had an egalitarian structure for several thousand years before it became this chiefly hierarchical structure. And that's because during those egalitarian years, you couldn't really dominate or influence anyone too much because they could always just go somewhere else and do something else for a living. But once those formerly empty territories start to fill up with hostile people, the better choice is to just submit to the wealthier, more powerful people in your area than to go off and stake it out on your own where you might be killed by enemies.
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Some *light* reading -- history and prophecy...
I read #FrankWaters "#TheBookOfTheHopi" many years ago, but misplaced my old copy. Refreshing myself on #HopiProphecy and what it all means for the times we are living in.
#EricCline's "#1177BC" has been a good read. I'm finding his chapter about a "perfect storm of calamities" to be relevant to the age we are living in now, especially with regard to #ClimateCrisis and #Polycrisis.
Graeber/Wengrow's "#TheDawnOfEverything" has taken me a while to get through... So much to take in. Learning about power and systems of power and their origins.
"The Occult Features of #Anarchism" by #EricaLagalisse also deals with systems of power -- and how #MutualAid is part of true autonomy (I agree).
#Bookstodon #AmReading #ReadWithPride #BannedBooks #ToBeBanned? #ReadWhileItsStillLegal #BigBrother #Fascism #Authoritarianism #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow
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“#TheDawnOfEverything”: #DavidWengrow & the Late #DavidGraeber On a New #HistoryOfHumanity -
2021
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#TheDawnofEverything”: David #Wengrow & the Late David #Graeber On a New History of #Humanity #yt
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Has anyone written about / applied #DavidGraeber & #DavidWengrow's three basic forms of social #freedom to #technology and/or #SocialMedia? I'd love to read this.
- the freedom to escape one's surroundings and move away,
- the freedom to disobey arbitrary authority, and
- the freedom to reimagine and reconstruct one's society in a different form. -
Glad to be reading two books with one on the left as a summary for @AmyIsCoolz 😊
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strong Graeber & Wengrow vibes here: www.404media.co/dna-from-pre... #thedawnofeverything
DNA from Prehistoric Proto-Cit... -
Lidar reveals more evidence of
8,000 B.C farming in Michigan where small, egalitarian, non-heirarchical, seasonally mobile Menominee forbears "cultivated vast fields of corn and potentially other crops."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/science/archaeology-menomini-michigan.html
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Noticed that private property rights and Musk, Murdoch, Zuckerberg and Google turning folk into deluded fascists go together?
If your candidate doesn't have higher priorities than private property rights then guess what'll keep happening.
#TheDawnOfEverything #GraeberAndWengrowe
#PrivatePropertyRights