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What this book knows
Human societies have always experimented with and dismantled political arrangements; hierarchy is a choice, not an evolutionary destiny.
obedience-and-authority
only modern, post-Enlightenment people had the capacity to self-consciously intervene in history and change its course — on this everyone suddenly seemed to agree
PA_THEDAWNOFEVERYTHING-RC-372there will always be an 'official version' of reality which no one, neither masters nor slaves, actually believes
PA_THEDAWNOFEVERYTHING-RC-462the narrative sets off from the neutralization of arbitrary power: the taming of the Isolated Earth People's leader — the chief sorcerer, who abuses his deadly knowledge
PA_THEDAWNOFEVERYTHING-RC-360ambition-and-status
some urban populations ventured partway down the road towards monarchy, only to turn back
PA_THEDAWNOFEVERYTHING-RC-389self-and-identity
innovation in Neolithic societies was based on a collective body of knowledge accumulated over centuries, largely by women, in an endless series of apparently humble but enormously significant discoveries
PA_THEDAWNOFEVERYTHING-RC-375huge swathes of the human past disappear from the purview of history, or remain effectively invisible except to the eyes of a tiny number of researchers
PA_THEDAWNOFEVERYTHING-RC-332Illuminates
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