Book · 2015 · Political Science
The Utopia of Rules
On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
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The ultimate hidden truth of this world is that it is something that we make and could just as easily make differently.
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- References David Graeber“the anthropologist David Greyber”6
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That's a fantastic graber passage. I love it. This is I I like literally read reading this book is like one of the things that like really sort of like committed me to anarchism because it you know like it it it's it's a it's a book that actually takes violence seriously in you know while talking about bureaucracy.
And he wrote a book called I think it's called the Utopia of rules that I've been reading which is pretty [ __ ] badass.
Duncan Trussell The Joe Rogan Experience · Dec 2017 The bureaucratic welfare state, as the anthropologist David Greyber points out in his book, The Utopia of Rules, was perhaps first implemented by archons conservative Otto von Bismar as a very explicit way to buy off the working class.
Here I turn to the anthropologist David Greyber from his book, The Utopia of Rules. Quote, I think what happened is best considered as a kind of shift in class allegiances on the part of the managerial staff.
The anthropologist David Graeber wrote extensively about bureaucracy throughout his career. Probably his most famous book is one of his later works called an earlier thing that he wrote called The Utopia of Rules.
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The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber is an anthropological examination of bureaucracy, violence, and the way administrative systems shape modern society. Mia Wong recommended the book on Behind the Bastards, stating that reading it was one of the factors that committed her to anarchism because it takes violence and institutional power seriously. Duncan Trussell also praised the work on The Joe Rogan Experience, describing it as a powerful read on bureaucracy. Wong frequently cited the book across multiple episodes of Behind the Bastards to support various arguments. She used Graeber's insights to discuss how corporate managers shifted their allegiance from workers to investors, how Otto von Bismarck implemented the bureaucratic welfare state to buy off the working class, and how bureaucratic systems simplify complex situations. Finally, Wong closed an episode by quoting Graeber's assertion that the hidden truth of the world is that people make it and could make it differently.
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Mia Wong The thing it reminds me of is the the anthropologist David Greyber wrote quoting someone else but I can't r… 6
“The bureaucratic welfare state, as the anthropologist David Greyber points out in his book, The Utopia of Rules, was perhaps first implemented by archons conservative Otto von Bismar as a very explicit way to buy off the working class.”
“The thing it reminds me of is the the anthropologist David Greyber wrote quoting someone else but I can't remember who he was quoting but he writes about how the relationship between sort of eloquence and violence where the less you have this this is in somewhere in the utopia of rules he writes about how you know people who”
“Here I turn to the anthropologist David Greyber from his book, The Utopia of Rules. Quote, I think what happened is best considered as a kind of shift in class allegiances on the part of the managerial staff”
“To quote for a final time David Greyber, "The ultimate hidden truth of this world is that it is something that we make and could just as easily make differently." I add only this, if we don't make the world differently, people are going to die.”
“The anthropologist David Greyber wrote extensively about bureaucracy throughout his career. Probably his most famous book is one of his later works called an earlier thing that he wrote called the utopia of rules. I'm I'm I'm going to read a little bit of one of the first sections of it.”
“That's a fantastic graber passage. I love it. This is I I like literally read reading this book is like one of the things that like really sort of like committed me to anarchism because it you know like it it it's it's a it's a book that actually takes violence seriously in you know while talking about bureaucracy”
Duncan Trussell and he wrote a book called I think it's called the Utopia of rules that I've been reading which is pretty [… 1
“and he wrote a book called I think it's called the Utopia of rules that I've been reading which is pretty [ __ ] badass”
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“I'm going to read a passage from David Greyber's utopia of rules. Ottovon Bismar's reaction to socialist electoral success in 1878 was twofold.”
