BONUS: Lord, preserve us from totalizing systems

Oddly Influenced

• DDavid Graeber, Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value, 2001
• David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, 2011
• David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: a New History of Humanity, 2021

• Dr. Anna O’Brien, Cows have distinct social classes and 'Boss Cows'
• Aimi Hussein and Racheal Bryant, "The secret life of cows: Social behavior in dairy herds" (PDF)
• Ian Welsh, "The Totalizing Principle Of Profit, and the Death of the Sacred"
• Paul Feyerabend and Bert Terpstra (editor), Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being, 2001
• John T. Jost, A Theory of System Justification, 2004. Which I have not read, but I have listened to a podcast conversation with him.
• James Suzman, "Why 'Bushman banter was crucial to hunter-gatherer's evolutionary success", derived from his book Affluence Without Abundance, 2017
• Peter Freuchen, Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos, 1961
• Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, 1975

Credits

Image of a veterinarian succussing a Holstein cow courtesy Dawn Marick, DVM, MS, DACVIM(LA).