Teleology of Progress & The Dawn of Everything - Drs. A.V. Bendebury & M.S. DeLay - DS Pod 291

Is the arrow of history one of progress, where things just keep
getting more bureaucratic and more complex, or is there another
story that we could tell about the past? This week we’re cracking
open David Graeber and David Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything, which
argues that the arrow of progress is flat out WRONG. Instead of
there being a single story of history that requires us to live
these enfeebled, isolated, matrixy lives, there is a whole world
of possibility out there for what a society *could* look like,
but they’ve been keeping it from you! Or have they? We enter into
this exploration with some skepticism (at least Nastia does),
because it’s possible that there are other competing systems that
litter history, but surely there’s something meaningful about the
fact that they’ve all been subsumed into the monetized beast that
is the modern capitalist technotopia (or dystopia, the
designation of which is inversely dependent on how much paid
vacation leave you get and directly dependent to how much time
you spend deboning chickens on the Perdue production line).
Whatever the case may be, we are listening, Davids - because any
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(00:00) Go! (00:07:28) Modern Historical Narratives of the Arc of
Progress (00:17:18) The Davids' Alternative Interpretations of
History (00:23:40) Indigenous Critique of European Hierarchies
(00:33:08) Legacy of Roman Conquest and European Conflict
(00:47:40) Indigenous vs. Western Social Organization (00:55:00)
Militarism and Freedom (01:03:24) The Arrow of Progress and
Future Implications (01:12:21) Economic Bailouts and Banking
(01:18:22) Indigenous Influence and New Ideas (01:25:24)
Government and Society (01:35:09) Exploration of Alternative
Societies (01:46:05) Vision for a Future Beyond Traditional
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studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking
to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time
painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also
did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of
molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring
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