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Re:Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2018) by myshpa on Saturday June 17, 2023 @06:38PM (#36375427)
Read it, you're probably wrong, and it will change your views once again.

All his books are superb.

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021) analyzes our civilization from another angle - how we have apparently "got stuck" on a single trajectory of development, and how violence and domination became normalised within this dominant system. Not finished yet, but it's also a candidate for aggressive recommendations :)

Re:Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2018) by 317070 on Sunday June 18, 2023 @04:26AM (#36378327)
The only book I wouldn't recommend is the one about Pirates. The Dawn, Debt, Bullshit Jobs, all were books that had a foundation-shaking therapeutic effect on me.

If you are somewhat anarchistic, these provide a framework to hold onto society which makes so much more sense than the one provided in most schooling systems.