Thread for discussing David Graeber (and maybe other cool anthropology and money history and activism related stuff)

his book "possibilities" is really great, one of the books that's made me properly stop and reframe my thinking, without bullying me into its ideas - should really take the time to look at Debt, which sounds fascinating.

havent read Debt yet but i saw him speak at a launch for it a few weeks ago and have been thinking about it a lot ever since. a lot of the ideas are so simple yet so hard/modern life has left us so unprepared to answer, "why can't you just pardon all of this debt?"

he also some gave some really satisfying answers to things ive always wondered about the origins of currency. definitely a great speaker and a total dude

this is a good short free greab read my friend who brought me along to the launch showed me http://www.ramshackleglory.com/paradigm14.pdf

so I'm not an expert but I get the sense that for the most part he's not himself a ~revolutionary thinker~, but a lot of the time someone who's pushing (relatively) overlooked stuff from the past (marcel mauss esp.) but when it comes to 'making stuff happen' - I don't think you have to be a revolutionary thinker. you do need to be someone who's good at framing issues and he is.

there are an huge global problems right now that could be solved if it weren't for contemporary cultural attitudes w/r/t the morality of debt and it's not an issue that's gonna go away anytime soon so I think he's well-positioned to be one of the more important public figures for the left.