Graeber & Wengrow — The Dawn of Everything
Book page: graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything
From: Quotes batch 7
Edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2021)
On Society and Freedom
“If something did go wrong in human history… it began with the loss of the freedom to imagine and enact other forms of social existence.” (p. 502)
On Decision Making in Ancient Societies
“We are projects of self-creation. What makes us human is our ability to consciously decide how we want to live together.” (p. 8)
On Critical Thinking and Historiography
“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” (p. 525)