In the Dawn of Everything, David Wengrow and David Graeber point out a major difference between today's societies and those that preceded them in terms of the "three freedoms."
Yes, we made this horrible system of social organization that has increasingly predominated since the Neolithic. And no, we have not rebelled against it, contrary to a number of examples from earlier societies in that book. Our "revolutions" are much as Emma Goldman wrote of the Soviet Union, simply a game of musical chairs in who the elites are.
This is not simply a case of some evil authoritarian dude (yes, surely a man) marching up to a peaceful village with his gang of thugs and putting himself in charge. It has happened are much too wide a scale for that.
And now, I wonder not only *how* we could rebel, but how we instill the imagination of something better than an authoritarian system of social organization to rebel for. I think we have been too well trained in the last 5,000-plus years.
David Benfell, Ph.D. (he/him/his)
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