10.5a – The Real Dawn of Everything: why our early ancestors were egalitarian and socially liberal

10.5a – The Real Dawn of Everything: why our early ancestors were egalitarian and socially liberal

May 12, 2026

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This episode explores the egalitarian and socially liberal aspects of early human societies.

Can we stop our civilization from collapsing into more and more inequality and less and less democracy? Are our only choices to be ruled by an owner class of infantile, out of touch zillionaire lunatics, or else an intellectual class... Continue Reading →

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