Society · 19 min
The Dawn Of Everything
By David Graeber | David Wengrow
This episode dismantles the conventional story of human history, revealing how our ancestors actively chose and shaped their societies, offering a radical new perspective on freedom and social possibility.
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Society
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19 min
What it is about
Human history, social evolution, freedom, governance
Who it is for
If you've ever felt that our current social systems are inevitable, this will reframe your understanding of human choice and collective possibility, and this will help you see what to do next.
The author
David Graeber, a anthropologist and activist, alongside archaeologist David Wengrow, meticulously re-examined millennia of archaeological and anthropological data to construct a radically different story of human social evolution.
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