Fuck, man. Fuck.

David Graeber's "Debt" was one of the most influential books I've ever read, his articles "Where's our Flying Cars?" and "The Bully's Pulpit" for the baffler inspired some of my best pieces - for the last two years of my life, he has been the giant on whose shoulders I have stood on the most often.

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This is just a little snippet today that really stuck out to me, about his time in post-Colonial Madagascar.

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So in the background I’m working on a book about an alternate history of Earth where, one day, it started raining and never stopped. As part of the research for this I’m reading three books at the moment; Against the Grain and Seeing Like a State by James C Scott, and David Graeber’s last book Dawn of Everything. They’re all books that cover pre-agricultural civilization and see agriculture not as an inevitable step in the march of progress, but as a decision that was made and had oppressive

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