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I recommend reading The Dawn of Everything edit: harari is a hack, you wouldn't have made the comparison had you read the graeber/wengrow
by wahnfrieden 4y ago
I recommend reading The Dawn of Everything
edit: harari is a hack, you wouldn't have made the comparison had you read the graeber/wengrow
- namaria 4y agoGraeber did a top notch job with Debt: The First 5000 thousand years. But I think Anthropologists taking on big history is a bit of a stretch. Harari's books, for example are very superficial, trying to touch on everything from biology to politics and end up with very little real insight. I never felt Dawn of Everything would be worth the time and money... edit: for the record, answering in edits is weird and I'm against it... authors slinging mud is hardly a case for their own competence, besides recommending a book about the whole of history to someone who wanted documentary recommendations on a very specific topic in History is also a bit of a hack
- einpoklum 4y ago"Harari is a hack etc." - I'm not sure what you're referring to; perhaps you were replying to somebody else?
- wahnfrieden 4y agothe other person replying to me. they equivocated the two authors whereas in reality they couldn't be further opposed.
- namaria 4y agoI think you mean equated
- wahnfrieden 4y agoyes but you understood.