The Dawn of Everything
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- Author: David Graeber and David Wengrow
- ASIN: B08WCL3V7Q
- ISBN: 0141991062
- Reference: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B08WCL3V7Q
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Highlights
Human society, in this view, is founded on the collective repression of our baser instincts, which becomes all the more necessary when humans are living in large numbers in the same place. — location: 621
nonsense. you could just as easily say the transactions of the marketplace necessitated by the polis enabled co-ordination and civilisation.
Something of a consensus has emerged among intellectuals and even, to some degree, the political classes that levels of social inequality have got out of hand, and that most of the world’s problems result, in one way or another, from an ever-widening gulf between the haves and the have-nots. — location: 675
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