The Grand Narrative of Human History - A newly emerging perspective

[TheAlchemist]

This article, and the soon to be released book co-written by David Graeber right before his death, takes a new, more nuanced look at the linearly progressing story of history we have largely accepted. It seems to include and trancend, and also reconsider some of the work of Diamond in Guns, Germs & Steel or Harari in Sapiens. Most importantly, it offers a message of hope, a message of the possibility of reimagining these systems of social existence we have grown so accustomed to. 

Here is the article:

 

Human History Gets a Rewrite

A brilliant new account upends bedrock assumptions about 30,000 years of change.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything-history-humanity/620177/

 

 

Edited October 20, 2021 by TheAlchemist

[Epikur]

tl dr ?

[Willie]

12 hours ago, Epikur said:

tl dr ?

History as you know it is incomplete.

[Epikur]

9 hours ago, Willie said:

History as you know it is incomplete.

I see postmodernism strikes again