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.
…want power over others because We're all in a necessary state of competition. Sometimes they think we just like power, like Nietzsche does, or sometimes they say, well, we want power to guarantee our access to gratification, food, sex, whatever it is we…
…want power over others because We're all in a necessary state of competition. Sometimes they think we just like power, like Nietzsche does, or sometimes they say, well, we want power to guarantee our access to gratification, food, sex, whatever it is we…
…want power over others because We're all in a necessary state of competition. Sometimes they think we just like power, like Nietzsche does, or sometimes they say, well, we want power to guarantee our access to gratification, food, sex, whatever it is we…
…to admit that I'm wrong. Okay. I think it's important that we're transparent about when we're wrong about things. I was wrong about Nietzsche the one time. That one time, yes. I mean, Grubhub is a little more important. It's about equal. Okay. So I did…
…debt outside of terms of morality because our sense of what morality even is has been redefined in terms of debt. Well, didn't Nietzsche say that Gilde and debt and guilt are all sort of related terms? Yeah, yeah, he did. And in German, should, yeah,…
…want to define this philosophy, religion, whatever. And once this is gone, you know, in a very Nietzschean way, you know, when Nietzsche said God is dead, he didn't mean God literally died. He said God was dead for people in people's mind. They couldn't…
…not only as a scientist, but as social thinkers, like... You know, you don't even have to talk about real weirdos like Nietzsche. I mean, what about anybody from Max Weber to Foucault, Deleuze? All these guys are kind of the heroes of the academy…
…but isn't that true? For years I couldn't get anybody to respond to this. Later I was in... and someone was explaining that Nietzsche actually proposed this. And I was like, really? Oh my God, what a smart guy. What another smart guy. Yeah, and I…