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.
…Paul DiRienzo. Protesters in Portland, Oregon, swept through the city on Sunday night, toppling statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in a demonstration against colonization and the treatment of Native Americans. The action was a protest or billed…
…the story that they always say is that Dorothy is the farmer who's blown away from her farm. Or sometimes she's Theodore Roosevelt, because Dorothy and Theodore are backwards. Same thing backwards. But the... The scarecrow is the farmer who has no brain…
…so... The fact that Dorothy is Theodore backwards, that seems a bit of a stretch. And you would really have to turn Theodore Roosevelt quite on his head to get him to be anything like Dorothy. But it's an interesting story. Historians have been dining…