LAWS 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Supermajority, David Graeber, Constitutionalism
16 Nov 2016
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What is the assumption that pre-determines what all the authors want to say: we"re selfish, we"re competitive / greedy. What rousseau said its because of society that we became this way, in the state of nature. Then, we make social structures to cater to our greed. Anthropologist, not a political scientist: amature sociogists. Studied how societies around the world organize themselves. What he puts forward: the idea of anarchism. Abandoning all of the things we take for granted and imagining our social existence within smaller size communes where there"s no government. In this society, if ever someone confronted/attacked you, there"s no police, you"re on your own. If there"s an asshole" in this kind of society, they can create more and more assholes, they can end up taking control. Hobbes, locke and rousseau are the alternatives to this form of living. We are brutish, selfish, etc life during the state of war is natish, brutish, and short.
