Book of the Week: THE ULTIMATE HIDDEN TRUTH OF THE WORLD by David Graeber
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." Thinking against the grain of received ideas, anthropologist, activist and author David Graeber imagined new ways of understanding of the past and a liberatory vision of the future — a social order based on fundamental freedoms. In these essays published over three decades and ranging across the biggest issues of our time — inequality, technology, the identity of ‘the West’, democracy, art, power, anger, mutual aid, and protest — he challenges old assumptions about political life. During a moment of daunting upheaval and pervasive despair, as we find ourselves in converging political, economic, and ecological crises and our politics dominated by either ‘business as usual’ or nostalgia for a mythical past, Graeber offers us new ways to think about how we live together — and how we can live together better.