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A World to Win: A History of Everything w/ David Wengrow

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What's Your View on Europe?

i want to ask you a few more questions about why europe comes out of your account as being so in averticomas wid. A lot of kind of european thought and ment thought is structured upon this idea that, you know, european civilization is the apex of human achievement. I think there's a danger that you could just flip this narrative on its head, and actually knows, the rest the world that's normal, and it's europe that's weird. And i conclude the book partly by drawing comparisons between contemporary european societies and indigenous north american societies in the seventeenth century.

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