> Our objections [to Hobbes and Rousseau] can be classified into three broad categories. As accounts of the general course of human history, they:
>
> 1. simply aren’t true;
> 2. have dire political implications;
> 3. make the past needlessly dull.
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and Wengrow https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything
Why are they thinking about #2 and #3 at all?
They're supposed to be scholars, not activists or entertainers.