The Dawn of Everything
Which came first, state or farming? Traditional archaeology says farming, leads to the state. This then leads to kings and dictators. Truth be told, some people rejected farming just because they wanted to. Why? It’s just hard. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow was a fascinating book that presented me with a lot of exciting questions. I wanted to record my impressions before I forgot them. In writing this, I’ve already moved past the first few chapters and let them fade from my memory. However what I remember boils down to the fact that what I know of as history, freedom and liberty was highly Eurocentric and unknown before the New World opened its doors. Literally, Rousseau was wrong and Native speakers could run rings around Europeans . By the fourth chapter, the authors discuss archaeologists' fallacy regarding foraging societies. Previously, it was said that they forged because they had no choice and that it was a primitive step on the road to civilizat...