The Dawn of Everything

Reviews

• Chat says - [1]
• You can’t come to a fork in the road to make a decision, unless you have taken the journey to get there, and reading the Dawn of Everything is that journey. - Amazon reviews [2]

One Lesson: Maintaining the System

See Civilization Maintenance -

Gossip Trap

Fascinating big picture history regarding the rise of civilization beyond Dunbar's Number, and it's proposed current reversion via social media taking us back to clans. https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/the-gossip-trap

• Eleanor Roosevelt -Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
• So then what is civilization? It is a superstructure that levels leveling mechanisms, freeing us from the gossip trap.
• As William Faulkner said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
• MJ comment -The solution for this morasse is the art of possibility. Yes, we have a past. Yes, we have a choice of where to go in the future. Worries about the future are what keeps us stuck in a bucket of crabs. But people love being down in the bucket. They would also love to climb out. Ultimately It's our choice.

Via Helen Dale

• Femininization has consequences- [3]
• In the absence of reality-testing, bullshit wins Davos and the World Economic Forum are, of course, the pinnacle of moral-signalling bullshit -[4]

• Far right backlash via Helen Dale - by a right guy who is scared how far right it will swing [5]
• Gossip at scale [6]