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David Graeber and David Wengrow would like a word with you regarding your simplistic, monotonic version of human history. "The Dawn of Everything" covers, with
by PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
David Graeber and David Wengrow would like a word with you regarding your simplistic, monotonic version of human history.
"The Dawn of Everything" covers, with multiple redundant stories, why this concept of "the way human civilizations evolved" is wrong. That doesn't mean that none of them did, but absilutely not all of them. It certainly wasn't a straight path from hunter-gatherer to <what came next> more or less anywhere in the world.
- smsm42 4y agoI never claimed it was a straight uniform path. I only claimed whatever path there was, the concept of production surplus likely played a role, and the concept of trade too - and the tradesmen, aka "businessmen" - were somewhere nearby to facilitate it.