I basically feel unqualified to have an opinion, it was very dense on facts about different civilizations in a way that I found difficult to assimilate, and not coming to it with a deep knowledge of anthropology or archaeology, the revolutionariness of the ideas was over my head. Basic takehomes where a) the hobbes/rousseau conceptions of pre-agricultural humans are myths, and that humans held a variety of social structures, which implies creativity and freedom. b) our modern unequal and heirarchical society is not an inevitability from agriculture/technology/ scale.
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