JA WestenbergNov 8, 2023
A thousand pop-sci anthropology hacks and TERFs just felt a disturbance in the force 🫡
Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Nov 8, 2023

@Daojoan can't remember who put it this way (might have been David Graeber in "Debt"), but it really rings true:

Of course women were equal members of the pre-agriculture tribes! Survival was difficult, and any tribe that attempted to side-line a full *half* of their members from active participation in hunts etc would simply die off.

Show threadhazelnot Nov 8, 2023
@rysiek @Daojoan Wtf I just now found out that David Graeber died in 2020 and The Dawn of Everything was published post-mortem
Show threadEsslar2Nov 8, 2023
@hazelnot @rysiek @Daojoan The Dawn of Everything was so astonishing to me that now I'm reading 3 other of Graeber's books. Someone who met and talked with Graeber said he realized after a little while that Graeber was a true genius. He really was brilliant.
Show threadBørge
@flyhigh @hazelnot @rysiek @Daojoan Since you're talking so highly of Graeber here, I have to just pop in and say that you will probably like the podcast @srslywrong. They praise him quite often. And it's very good and funny.
Nov 8, 2023 at 2:02pmWeb
Show threadEsslar2Nov 8, 2023
@forteller @hazelnot @rysiek @Daojoan @srslywrong I'll listen, thanks!
Show threadhazelnot Nov 8, 2023
@flyhigh @rysiek @Daojoan @forteller @srslywrong I'm not talking highly of anyone, I never even read any of his work, I just heard of that book lol
Show threadEsslar2Nov 8, 2023
@hazelnot @rysiek @Daojoan @forteller @srslywrong If you make it your aim to read that book, you will not be sorry. I was shocked at how little I really knew about human social history when I got through it. It changed my whole way of looking at society. I now think it is one of the finest books I've ever read.
Show threadRubyNov 8, 2023
@flyhigh @hazelnot @rysiek @Daojoan @forteller @srslywrong it really does completely change one's perspective of the past of nothing else
Show threadfloNov 8, 2023

@forteller @flyhigh @hazelnot @rysiek @Daojoan @srslywrong
Funny, I expected you to recommend "Everyday Anarchism" since he references to Graeber in almost every episode and the title, and right now does a series on Debt.

I totally love both shows!