An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
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An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
the freedom to reorganize social relations.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
We are projects of collective self-creation. What if we approached human history that way? What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trap
... See moreDavid Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber and David Wengrow’s recent book The Dawn of Everything recounts how early Mesopotamian, American, and African societies moved between individualistic and collective periods based on how people procured food (hunting, individualistic; planting, collectivist) with a fluid complexity to identity and function:
“The freedom to abandon one’s... See more
The Post-Individual
We go through how the People of the State have used their power to distort recent and distant history, and how the Network is newly rectifying this distortion in “If the News is Fake, Imagine History