Out of the ninety books that I read in 2021, I found these fifteen books most informative and thought-provoking;
1. Who We Are And How We Got Here — by David Reici
2. Purva Mimamsa In Its Sources — by Ganganath Jha
3. The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade — by Hugh Thomas
4. The Horse, The Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World — by David W. Anthony
5. Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance — by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone
6. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest — by Francis Jennings
7. Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes — by Jacques Ellul
8. A People’s History of the United States — by Howard Zinn
9. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity — by David Graeber and David Wengrow
10. The Myth of American Exceptionalism — by Godfrey Hodgson
11. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India — by Nicholas B. Dirks
12. A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History — by Nicholas Wade
13. The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain — by María Rosa Menocal
14. The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians — by Noam Chomsky
15. The Man-Eating Myth — by William F Arens
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"The Dawn of Everything" is biased disingenuous account of human history that spreads fake hope (the authors of "The Dawn" claim human history has not "progressed" in stages... so there's hope for us now that it could get different/better again). As a result of this fake hope porn it has been widely praised. It conveniently serves the profoundly sick industrialized world of fakes and criminals. The book's dishonest fake grandiose title shows already that this work is a FOR-PROFIT, instead a FOR-TRUTH, endeavor geared at the (ignorant gullible) masses.
Fact is human history has "progressed" by and large in linear stages, especially since the dawn of agriculture (www.focaalblog.com/2021/12/22/chris-knight-wrong-about-almost-everything ). This "progress" has been fundamentally destructive and is driven and dominated by “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room” (www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html ) which the fake hope-giving authors of "The Dawn" entirely ignore, naturally. And these two married pink elephants are the reason why we've been "stuck" in a destructive hierarchy, and will be into the foreseeable future.
A good example that one of the authors, Graeber, has no real idea what world we've been living in and about the nature of humans is his last brief article on Covid where his ignorance shines bright already at the title of his article, “After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep.” Apparently he doesn't know that most people WANT to be asleep, and that they've been wanting that for thousands of years (and that's not the only ignorant notion in the title). Yet he (and his partner) is the sort of person who thinks he can teach you something authentically truthful about human history and whom you should be trusting along those terms. Ridiculous!
"The Dawn" is just another fantasy, or ideology cloaked in a hue of cherry-picked "science," served lucratively to the gullible ignorant underclasses.
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