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  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Complex societies tend to foster social hierarchies and authoritarianism due to their complexity

    This is an assumption. While it's common in social sciences, it's not rigorous. It's a rhetoric that serves to separate colonial societies from the societies they oppress.

    Graeber and Wengrow expand on this in Dawn of Everything, which is a really good book to read if you're thinking about the possibility of Equality.