Still the same books as last week. I don't think it was a good idea to start 3 books at once, I am probably going to focus of Bands of Mourning, which has become really interesting. Still have about 1/3rd of the book to go though.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] 51dusty@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is such a great book, I don't remember a single page being boring or uninteresting. RIP David!

[–] 51dusty@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

absolutely agree!

as a somewhat casual reader about early human history, I was surprised about how much of "common prehistory lore" is actually history written through a very thick Victorian lens.

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 2 points 2 days ago

The "we're all animals in a pit" version? :)

The first seed of the realization of the opposite of that came with Kropotkin, but Graeber backing that up scientifically with this was very exciting at the time. Still is, but I sure wish I could read this book for the first time again.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Please enjoy.

Along with Naomi Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates works, plus John Ralston Saul's The Unconscious Civilization, Rutger Bregman's Utopia is for Realists and several Massey Lectures, these have shaped my outlook on the world as it is.

Because this came last, for me, it recast this human experiment of ours and the depth of misdirection that is going on now.