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 effects of historical knowledge, which shows us the fairly arbitrary choices with which our reality was made. By reminding us of the malleability of the world, it also reminds us of our freedom; as the Lithuanian philosopher Leonidas Donskis put it, it is a form of ‘liquid evil’ to believe that there are no alternatives.8
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
There are many sources of inspiration. New anthropological and archaeological research in books like The Dawn of Everything shows that the history of our species is full of diverse political and social structures and that humans 10,000 years ago were likely more engaged in the politics that ruled their lives compared to today’s average person. They... See more
Crypto’s use-cases, experiments, and narrative shifts
what we would ordinarily imagine as the state sector (e.g. public works, international relations) was managed largely by local or city-wide assemblies; while top-down bureaucratic procedures were limited to what we would now think of as the economic or commodity sphere.