c/david-graeber
Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…got, you know, stuff that E.P. Thompson chronicles, is this kind of strong and very ferocious moral condemnation of capitalism. Yes. Jim Scott is very good at that as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it has been strikingly missing, I think, from... left…
…to other forms of society that exist around them. In a way, there's been a whole literature that's emerged on this of Jim Scott, He points out most people in most of Southeast Asian history didn't live in states, but in societies that seemed to organize…
…and forth, because I mean, I'm actually a little critical of people who just focus on the rejection. I think, I love Jim Scott, but I think that, as I say, it's a bit one-dimensional to just imagine people's entire lives being about not being governed…