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Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…And the early Darwinian theorists were actually talking to each other. Like the phrase survival of the fittest was not invented by Darwin. Darwin got it from Spencer. And Spencer was a sociologist. He was actually a free market guy. And he read an early…
…the early Darwinian theorists were actually talking to each other. Like the phrase survival of the fittest was not invented by Darwin. Darwin got it from Spencer. And Spencer was a sociologist. He was actually a free market guy. And he read an early draft…
…got it from Spencer. And Spencer was a sociologist. He was actually a free market guy. And he read an early draft of Darwin and said, yeah, that's it. It's just like the market. The market is everywhere. And he coined this phrase of survival of the…
…yeah, that's it. It's just like the market. The market is everywhere. And he coined this phrase of survival of the fittest. And then Darwin liked that so much that he adopted it in the next volume of his book. So these guys were talking to each other.…
…the fact that we aren't unconscious organisms. We're conscious. As soon as consciousness enters the picture, Darwinism doesn't work anymore. Even Darwin viewed that, but Anne Rand and people like her didn't actually read that part of the book. It's a bit…