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A review by lizshayne
The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow, David Graeber
challenging
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
5.0
I definitely read this too quickly and I definitely did not appreciate everything it was doing, but it does confirm many of my core beliefs:
1) People talking about information they are passionate about is amazing
2) All disciplines get more interesting the further you drill down into the knowledge mostly specialists know
3) Stuff is more complicated than you think
It also introduced me to many thinkers and civilizations that I just knew nothing about and it was the wide variety and the possibilities that were so interesting and compelling.
Also the authors' critique of inequality as a useful framework without more context AND their arguments about the nature of freedom (as grounded in the indigenous critique) is SUPER fascinating. (Also feels like it's in conversation with the way that religious thinkers have tried to come to terms with freedom and heteronomy in ways that shine a light on the weak points)
1) People talking about information they are passionate about is amazing
2) All disciplines get more interesting the further you drill down into the knowledge mostly specialists know
3) Stuff is more complicated than you think
It also introduced me to many thinkers and civilizations that I just knew nothing about and it was the wide variety and the possibilities that were so interesting and compelling.
Also the authors' critique of inequality as a useful framework without more context AND their arguments about the nature of freedom (as grounded in the indigenous critique) is SUPER fascinating. (Also feels like it's in conversation with the way that religious thinkers have tried to come to terms with freedom and heteronomy in ways that shine a light on the weak points)