Coincidentally, I actually re-read The Burnout Society a few months ago while I was listening to The Dawn of Everything. I strongly recommend The Burnout Socie

Coincidentally, I actually re-read The Burnout Society a few months ago while I was listening to The Dawn of Everything. I strongly recommend The Burnout Society, though I think it tackles these issues from a different perspective: "how we compromise ourselves in service of the (false) personal and societal narratives we've constructed". A more direct line to The Dawn of Everything in the sense of "how did we construct these narratives in the first place?" would probably be Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman. Coincidentally for this thread, it also includes a chapter on the results of real wolf domestication studies (and how it affects animal behaviour) in past decades.