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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.
…guy. And basically, every single Enlightenment thinker writes an imitation of this book. Voltaire has another Euron. Diderot is a Polynesian. Montesquieu is a Persian. Everybody does a version of this. And there are plays based on it that are run for 20…
…or the public can do it themselves. Yeah, you said a bit of eye contact might help. And then you referred to Montesquieu. I did. Meeting somebody. Osage. Osage. Representatives of the Osage Nation. How do you spell that? O-S-A-G-E. I see that LaFleche and…
…about what they might have actually been thinking or saying. The idea that these people were basically sub-puppets. So when Montesquieu or Laurentin or somebody writes a dialogue with a savage, what they're actually doing is supposedly having a dialogue with…
…move quicker. Go ahead. All right. So everybody, every single Enlightenment thinker writes an imitation of this book. I mean, Montesquieu famously has a Persian, but mostly it's, I think, Diderot has a Polynesian. Voltaire has a half-Uran. There's notches.…
…sort of got together and figured out their constitution. And interestingly enough, a bunch of Assanges also visited Paris and met Montesquieu and seemed to have had an influence on his whole idea that constitutional orders create the strafe of societies. So…