One review on 29 Apr 2023
First Published: 2021
Non-Fiction
The Dawn of Everything
A new view of the history of humanity
Authors: David Graeber , David Wengrow
Format: Paperback
Synopsis
A detailed and highly referenced account of the problems with conventioanl archaeological interpretation both of interactions with "primitive" people in recorded history and of the archaelogical record going back over 10,000 years and potentially 100,000 years since the human brain evolved.
The authors discuss the implications of alternative views of the record and use that to offer both a model of different modes of development that actually occured and why we may have ended up where we seem to be today "stuck" in a single paradigm of linear progress and invevitable unsustainable growth ofhuman civilization - which of course is now crashing into some more of less hard planetary limits.
Reviews
Simple Rules Create Complex Social Systems
by rogerco on Sat 29th Apr 2023.
Societies and Civilisations differ in the ways in which they constrain the three basic human freedoms - freedom of movement (eg away from oppression), freedom of choice (eg choice to refuse to obey any order), and freedom to create any form of new social order that one can imagine.