An Anti-Civilisation Critique of The Dawn of Everything
An Anti-Civilisation Critique of The Dawn of Everything Certainly, our distant ancestors were far more rational than we give them credit for, but it was their irrational quality that distinguished them from the automatons which followed. Written by Darren Allen. David Graeber was, like Noam Chomsky , a rationalist, democratic, technophilic socialist who appropriated the radicalism of anarchism in order to distance himself from the conspicious futility of the professional leftism he embodied. He uncritically supported democracy (and was unable or unwilling to accept that it tyrannously subordinates individuals), he was uncritical of standard leftist causes (such as anti-racism, and other tools of management), he had no real interest in genuine anarchist revolt (continually focusing his ‘activism’ through statist party politics), he was uncritical of professionalism (firing potshots at every job conceivable in his book Bullshit Jobs , yet curiously reluctant to attack d...