Close Reads of Great Articles: How to Change the Course of History by Davids Graeber & Wengrow: Pt 3
Channel: Our Dailies
Date: 2019-10-03

The Davids Graeber and Wengrow discuss how the conventional narrative about human development, that we evolved from hunter gatherers to farmers to city dwellers and were inevitably saddled with inequality and authoritarianism as a result, is totally unsupported by evidence and deeply harmful. Instead, they preset a ton of fascinating stories of ancient civilizations with mind-blowingly dynamic ways of organizing themselves. A really cool, mind-opening look at our forgotten past.

This is the second in a new series I'll be doing for a while close reading my favorite articles of all time. As we transition to covering the news instead of Rocket League, I thought it'd be important to build up a base of background knowledge and start practicing doing a different type of show. Hope you enjoy.

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Original Article via EuroZine: https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/
My notes on it: https://ourdailies.org/thing?id=ck18k83i6000k0716mn6ich0v