Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-02
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Vicky Osterweil recommended Debt by David Graeber and Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Debt
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber is an anthropological examination of how debt systems, financial classes, and power dynamics have shaped human civilization over millennia.
Recommended“a really a much better book that was important was also David Greyber's debt.”
Where to get it
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Crowds and Power
Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti is a twentieth-century sociological and anthropological study that attempts to explain the entirety of human history through the behavior, transformation, and dynamics of crowds.
Recommended“there's this guy this 20th century like literary weirdo this guy Ilas Kennedy um Italian guy this book called wrote this book called Crowds and Power where he attempts to he attempts to describe the entirety of human history and anthropology in terms of crowds.”
Where to get it
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Passing Settlers
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Plugged In Defense of Looting
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