this clip is quite old, but anyone feeling surprised or shocked by today’s result clearly hasn't been paying attention. Obviously I'm biased, but my mate David had a clearer diagnosis of contemporary politics than anyone alive now.
On planet Earth, another year passes without David Graeber (d. Sept. 2, 2020)
Where’s the time going, my friend?
Down here, things much as you predicted (or slightly worse, for now).
Meanwhile, I’m hard at work on Book 2 of #TheDawnOfEverything
It’ll be called #TheThirdFreedom
Another day, another Harvard genetics paper on the whereabouts of an (I really must stress this) purely *imaginary “Indo-European homeland” - published in Nature, to the applause of alt-right and white supremacists the world over, but of course, all in the name of “good science”.
Thank you to everyone who wrote today, for your kind words. @davidgraeber was my intellectual soulmate, and more than a dear friend - a "substitute brother" as he liked to say. I will finish what we started. I know it's what he expects of me. It's beginning. #TheDawnOfEverything
Where is David Graeber? Myself, I like to imagine he’s forever on board a pirate ship just like the one in Our Flag Means Death, with a crew of amiable rogues and a large private library, sailing the high seas .. I believe the ship is called Revenge.
I’m sending a birthday message to David Graeber (aboard his celestial pirate ship) - David: the world just keeps on getting worse without you in it (p.s. rumours down here say I’m working on a sequel to our book and some of them may be true).
"The priest-king is dead. The Indus civilization was egalitarian, but this is not because it lacked complexity; rather, it is because a ruling class is not a prerequisite for social complexity." Yup.
