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David Rolfe Graeber (/ˈɡreɪbər/; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time.
I didn't actually know about this guy. Reading up on him now. Thanks for posting!
do you remember one or two? I'm unlikely to go get that book any time soon.
every example of "monkey considering monkey stranger" was "bad monkey." That is the forest of this article: we're good monkeys to monkey friends and bad monkeys to monkey strangers.
but that's not the case at all, because we have monkey traditions and monkey manners and monkey mores.
again I agree that we don't think of people outside our 150-200 person capacity in the same way as those we know well. we don't give them the level of consideration we should. we don't live up to the golden rule all the time.
but EVERY example in the article was monkey stranger --> bad monkey.
How many of those societies have undergone an industrial revolution?
... But they study those societies by their bones.
We don't owe the future tall buildings, smog, and a persistant thread of civilizational narrative. Humans living on their own terms might just die.
Many of those societies exist today and are thriving compared to our lifestyles. The San people in the Namibian desert have a much higher quality of life in terms of physical, mental, and social health than almost any of us English speakers.
are you under the impression that those in states dont become bones?