I'm not a huge fan of Sahlins nor post-structuralism, but he's done some amazing work that heavily impacted our understanding of nomadic gatherer hunter societies.
This essay crashed the scene in 1966. It turned what were once conventional ideas about human nature on their heads and exposed that civilization had not only failed to offer us any value or growth, but taken it away. The primal anarchy in which our nomadic gatherer-hunter ancestors and relatives live is stronger than anything technology produces. And it will outlast.
"The wanderers will re-arise."
The Original Affluent Society
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