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.
…called the people and states get their legitimacy from it. People would have thought, oh, you're one of those guys who reads Voltaire and hangs around in cafes and whatever. You know, 20 years later, everybody had to at least say they agreed with that.…
…series of debates and conversations with this 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…
…Rojava University, very basic facilities, but they're working very hard to do things like teach agriculture And there's a quote from Voltaire. And chemistry and other things. They have some books, but they're also missing. There's a lot, some of them are,…
…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. Every sort of indigenous person you could imagine. And of course, these ones are made up,…