
The Dawn of Everything

Pick up The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow, which
Darius Foroux • Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
Between eleven thousand and five thousand years ago, everything changed. Bands were mostly replaced by tribes, chiefdoms, and archaic versions of states. Hierarchical societies that did exist got more hierarchical.
Brian Klaas • Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
Agriculture, in turn, did not mean the inception of private property, nor did it mark an irreversible step towards inequality. In fact, many of the first farming communities were relatively free of ranks and hierarchies. And far from setting class differences in stone, a surprising number of the world’s earliest cities were organized on robustly
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