FWIW, David Graeber was vocally and loyally with you on this. This isn't a book about the consensus, it's more of a deconstructionist vibe. The paradigms in th

FWIW, David Graeber was vocally and loyally with you on this. This isn't a book about the consensus, it's more of a deconstructionist vibe. The paradigms in the crosshairs tend to be the 19th century, modernist, "thought experiment" era. His book on debt challenged that era's (still persistent) "origin of money" hypothesis. This one is more about political history. EG, the prevalence of rights, constitutions and such in preindustrial societies.