“Humans may not have begun their history in a state of primordial innocence, but they do appear to have begun it with a self-conscious aversion to being told what to do.”
This book by a British archaeologist and an American anarchist anthropologist did nothing less than blow my mind. In short – it’s about where we came from in terms of the the organisational structure of society, and how we got stuck in our current quagmire of inequality and bureaucracy. It proves that throughout history there have been other ways of doing things and so many of them had tangible benefits that have since been thrown away.
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