jinn 72
“Don’t be so hard on Graeber.
As far as I can tell, Graeber’s thesis was that for patriarchal societies DN is very small and a valid concept, but the evidence (in the archeological record) shows that matriarchal societies can function without the conflict and limitations of DN at vastly larger numbers even with vastly greater complexity.”
Thanks jinn.
Do you mean matriarchal or matrilineal?
Graeber was a self-professed anarchist. Taking a job at LSE after being an anti-capitalist activist, and writing a fake anthropology book that ridiculously changes the definition of anarchism (egalitarianism) to an urban Leftist (socialist/communist) ideal, while at LSE, at precisely the time when global capitalism is failing and the young anti-capitalist vanguard are deeply questioning things all the way down to civilization itself – THAT is a classic case of elite rearguard action: formalize the cultural marxist co-optation of anarchism via the formal channel, in cultural anthropology.
Cultural anthropology has essentially become the science of natural anarchism, because that’s where the science led. And that’s a problem for civilization. A Loose End.
I’ve talked about how, along with the national socialist HTOE, the elite are needing to clean up the various independent factions in the world that operate above Dunbar’s Number – what I’ve called the Loose Ends; they need to tie up the Loose Ends. Among these are the distributed anarchists around the world.
Civilization itself is beginning to collapse and the elite don’t like that the consensus formal science of cultural anthropology has for 50 years now made it abundantly clear, consistently and increasingly so, that civilization is the the structural source of injustice and, furthermore, than human nature in and of itself has no inherent flaw that causes structural injustices outside of civilization.
So along comes the most famous antiglobalization ‘anarchist’ activist, a Jew who grew up with communist parents, having been blackballed by academia for a couple decades for his involvement in the first Seattle protests, having since written the anti-capitalist blockbuster,”Debt,” right around the time when organic financial global growth ended, and the terminal decline of capitalism sets in, suddenly gets a position at the LSE which is the number one pipeline straight to the heart of the Beast, where most future junior bankers at Goldman Sachs go to study abroad. And then he proceeds to write a pathetically-argued book ‘discrediting’ the very field of study, as relatively obscure a field as it is, that roundly exposes civilization for what it is. And he does so with nothing more than intellectual dishonesty.
And the book is by far the most heavily marketed anthropology book of all time.
Once again, things that make you go hmmm…
Here’s a lengthy review of the book by a professional anthropologist. Naturally it’s written in a very polite, professional tone, but I think you will find the subtext nothing short of scathing. It also serves as a useful intro to anthropology.
As an addendum I want everyone to know that I do not have a problem with Jews per se. They’re humans like everyone else. Their religious mother culture is spectacularly rotten and influential, but the souls of all Jews have the capability, more or less — despite the reality of ‘blood memory’ under natural law — to walk away from that heritage. My several Jewish friends are all black sheep Jews that walked away swam upstream of that blood memory and moved out to the country to come alongside the land. Jews capable of breaking THOSE shackles are an inspiration to all of humanity.
That’s not Graeber. He died in infamy to those in the know.
Cheers.
https://theecologist.org/2021/dec/17/all-things-being-equal

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