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well, considering Graeber's endless flirtations with the liberal left (by portraying himself as a targeted academic refused a teaching contract at Yale, that noted hotbed of anarchist professors!) and his constant attempts to position himself in the center of whatever leftist social movement was happening while he was watching (from Occupy, where he refined what was to become the idiotic slogan "We Are the 99%" to Rojava, where he and Milstein toured a few Potemkin villages and sang the praises of the marxist-leninist militants of the YPG), it makes perfect sense that he and his co-author would promote some sort of Unified Field Theory of human history that would appeal to "the masses" as well as mainstream academia. it should probably also be pointed out that Diamond, Harari, and Pinker are all politically center-right, and so come to (perhaps) different conclusions...