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Listening to the audio book of Goliath's Curse performed by the author Luke Kemp.
Luke is looking at similar historical and anthropological data to that looked at by Graeber and Wengrow in The Dawn of Everything.
But from a different perspective - societal collapse.
The cowboys and Injuns TV shows of my childhood take on a whole different perspective ...
"We are choked with news but starved of history.”—Will Durant
The reigning #SpectacleMiester has us stuffed with news like geese being prepped for patè production. (They're force fed wheat.)
Can think of no better alternative than switching my inrellectual diet to #TheDawnOfEverything by #GraeberAndWengrow.
An exploding of the myth that frames most history.
With #GraeberAndWengrow's book #TheDawnOfEverything having upset the idea of a one way process of becoming agrarian, I'm wondering if the spread of cats can be used as a proxy for the spread of grain growing as the dominant source of food.
If so then the northern Balkans were grain growers some 6000 years before ancient Greece got there.
I like to read that when I hold the Foe to be the systems of government that resulted in that war and the many wars since, and now #ClimateChange.
Maybe.
If so then some #GeneticEngineering by the folk who brought you, "Masks don't work against Covid", and the #BarringtonDeclaration would be the best chance. #Elon would prob want to be involved too.
Whereas if it's our culture then things get to be about human relationships, worldviews and gooier stuff and #TheDawnOfEverything by #GraeberAndWengrow shows at least the possibility of adapting.
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