Human History Is Not Set In Stone
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LinkedIn I'm Rufus Griscom and this is the next big idea. Today. Why the course of human history is not set in stone. Coming out of the most combative election we've seen in generations.
The question many of us are asking ourselves is Can we all get along? Is our democracy working? Is it possible to sustain collaborative large scale democracies that attend to everyone's needs? I for one feel a little discouraged in this moment.
But I'm reminded of an uplifting conversation I had with David Wengrow about his extraordinary twenty twenty-one book, The Dawn of Everything. A new history of humanity. Which he co wrote with the late anthropologist and anarchist David Graber. To understand this conversation. You need a little backstory.
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