Graeber expands on Hakim Bey by discussing how prevelent anarchist-like systems and cultures are already existing in the world now, but are invisible to the average person who lives trapped by cliches like, 'anarchist organization? Isn't that an oxymoron?' Ha Ha. This is a refreshing and accessible look at our culture's general inability to think outside the box and a clear explanation of some commonsense ideas that simply needed to be put into words.

Graeber's book has actually met those requirements. This book is highly recommended to anyone with an interest in the utopian project of envisioning the possibilities for a better world, or anyone who would like a template for understanding how 5,000 years of patriarchal, authoritarian history is actually just a pinprick on the human timeline that obscures better options for society that have existed before and still do now.įor many years now I've been waiting for a book to come along with the same exciting qualities as Hakim Bey's 'T.A.Z' terse, philosophically challenging, a synthesis of brilliant ideas, a manifesto for a new generation's resistance. Within he discusses how subtle, anti-authoritarian systems and cultures are already existing in the world now, but are invisible to the average person who lives trapped by cliches like, 'anarchist organization? Isn't that an oxymoron?' Ha Ha. Years later, Graeber would become famous for his book Debt and his involvement with Occupy Wall Street, but before all that this tiny book was a refreshing and accessible look at our culture's general inability to think outside the box and a clear explanation of some commonsense ideas that simply needed to be put into words. Graeber's book actually met those requirements and confirmed my suspicions about the potential for radical analysis within the Anthropological discipline. For years i waited for a book to come along with the same exciting qualities as Hakim Bey's 'T.A.Z' terse, philosophically challenging, a synthesis of brilliant ideas, a manifesto for a new generation's resistance.

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