An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
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An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
Two thousand years ago, the potential for multinational governance at a vast scale was already achieved. The European Union, one can say, seeks to govern Europe at the scale of the Pax Romana, but without the imperial wars and without the chauvinism of one people dominating the rest. The People’s Republic of China similarly aims for the internal pe
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our standard historical meta-narrative about the ambivalent progress of human civilization, where freedoms are lost as societies grow bigger and more complex – was invented largely for the purpose of neutralizing the threat of indigenous critique.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
They hoped these technologies would make it possible for people to inhabit “temporary autonomous zones” — the socio-political tactic of creating temporary spaces in the physical world or cyberspace that elude formal systems of control.
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the curtain of the ages, examining what life was like in the millennia separating the Cognitive Revolution from the Agricultural Revolution.