Human History Gets a Rewrite
William Deresiewicz,
The Atlantic,
Oct 22, 2021
If nothing else, this article should make it clear that we should be open to embracing alternative explanations, and even alternative descriptions, about things where we don't have certainty. The rise of nation-states and the emergence of civilization is certainly one such subject. And I will admit that my own discomfort with official story is similar to that of David Graeber, at least as he is depicted here. To b clear, I knew nothing about him before reading this article, though I am certainly aware of his work through its outcomes: things like Occupy Wall Street and the protests against the World Economic Forum (WEF). This article is essentially a review of The Dawn of Everything in which Graeber and David Wengrow ask, "How did we get stuck... in a world of war, greed, exploitation [and] systematic indifference to others' suffering?" That is a good question, and really ought to be on the curriculum somewhere.
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