Tania quoted The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal …
If human beings, through most of our history, have moved back and forth fluidly between different social arrangements, assembling and dismantling hierarchies on a regular basis, maybe the real question should be ‘how did we get stuck?’ How did we end up in one single mode? How did we lose that political self-consciousness, once so typical of our species? How did we come to treat eminence and subservience not as temporary expedients, or even the pomp and circumstance of some kind of grand seasonal theatre, but as inescapable elements of the human condition?
— The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow (Page 131)