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A review by morgan_blackledge
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow
5.0
Author David Graeber is an anarchist anthropologist (AA).
That has to be dorkiest/coolest profession of all time.
⚠️WEIRD TANGENT/RANT ALERT ⚠️
The only way to amp up that (anarchist/anthropologist) résumé would be to add dungeon master to it somewhere.
By dungeon master I mean the dungeons and dragons (D&D) kind not the bondage and dominance, sadism and masochism (BDSM) kind.
Although, real talk, there actually is a big crossover between the D&D crowd and the BDSM crowd.
I totally shit you not.
I know (or have known) a good many BDSM folks, and their dirty little secret is, they’re all nerds.
Like, hook up at a Magic: The Gathering (MTG) tournament, Star Trek: The Next Generation (STNG) super-fan types.
Maybe Harry Potter (HP) is a better (more timely and ironically MUCH more loaded - based on miss thing’s outspokenness against trans folk) emblem of nerdiness.
Extruding on that (however cringy) Graeber Is a good little wizard, and this book is legit spellbinding.
Anyway…
Moving on from this AA/D&D/BDSM/MTG/STNG/HP tangent.
⚠️ END OF WEIRD TANGENT/RANT ALERT ⚠️
From what I gather, if you’re a scholar/anarchist, your vocation (day job) is to research and publish in your field, and your avocation (raison d’être - that’s French for ‘the most important reason or purpose for someone or something's existence’, not diet of raisins as you may reasonably guess) is to undermine state power by (in part) challenging banal assumptions regarding the inevitability, efficacy and favorability of state control.
Mind you, I’m reverse engineering this (scholar/anarchist) job description based on this reading alone. So please forgive me if it’s either primitive (primate and primitive have the same Latin root word by the way, primus meaning ‘first’ or essential) or naïve (derived from the mid 17th century French word naïve, meaning feminine, or maybe from Latin nativus ‘native, natural’).
Just as words like ‘primitive’ and ‘naïve’ are both problematic as fuck (in that racist, sexist, classist, imperialistic, heteronormative, homophobic, humanocentric, phallocentric, eurocentric kind of way), particularly when you know their origin.
NOTE: noxious examples may include: Monkeys (primates) are ‘primitive’ people. Primitive people are like monkeys. Women are naïve, and naivety is the feminine quality. Native people are natural, and therefore naïve. I could go on but…yuck
That has to be dorkiest/coolest profession of all time.
⚠️WEIRD TANGENT/RANT ALERT ⚠️
The only way to amp up that (anarchist/anthropologist) résumé would be to add dungeon master to it somewhere.
By dungeon master I mean the dungeons and dragons (D&D) kind not the bondage and dominance, sadism and masochism (BDSM) kind.
Although, real talk, there actually is a big crossover between the D&D crowd and the BDSM crowd.
I totally shit you not.
I know (or have known) a good many BDSM folks, and their dirty little secret is, they’re all nerds.
Like, hook up at a Magic: The Gathering (MTG) tournament, Star Trek: The Next Generation (STNG) super-fan types.
Maybe Harry Potter (HP) is a better (more timely and ironically MUCH more loaded - based on miss thing’s outspokenness against trans folk) emblem of nerdiness.
Extruding on that (however cringy) Graeber Is a good little wizard, and this book is legit spellbinding.
Anyway…
Moving on from this AA/D&D/BDSM/MTG/STNG/HP tangent.
⚠️ END OF WEIRD TANGENT/RANT ALERT ⚠️
From what I gather, if you’re a scholar/anarchist, your vocation (day job) is to research and publish in your field, and your avocation (raison d’être - that’s French for ‘the most important reason or purpose for someone or something's existence’, not diet of raisins as you may reasonably guess) is to undermine state power by (in part) challenging banal assumptions regarding the inevitability, efficacy and favorability of state control.
Mind you, I’m reverse engineering this (scholar/anarchist) job description based on this reading alone. So please forgive me if it’s either primitive (primate and primitive have the same Latin root word by the way, primus meaning ‘first’ or essential) or naïve (derived from the mid 17th century French word naïve, meaning feminine, or maybe from Latin nativus ‘native, natural’).
Just as words like ‘primitive’ and ‘naïve’ are both problematic as fuck (in that racist, sexist, classist, imperialistic, heteronormative, homophobic, humanocentric, phallocentric, eurocentric kind of way), particularly when you know their origin.
NOTE: noxious examples may include: Monkeys (primates) are ‘primitive’ people. Primitive people are like monkeys. Women are naïve, and naivety is the feminine quality. Native people are natural, and therefore naïve. I could go on but…yuck