Tao Te Ching

“Before the Shang, nothing particularly interesting was supposed to have happened... Nobody expected archaeologists to find there a 4000 year-old city extending over 400 hectares with a great stone wall enclosing palaces and a step-pyramid, lording it over a subservient rural hinterland nearly 1000 years pre-Shang.”

— ​David Graeber 1961 – 2020 CE
Pioneering reshaper and insightful commentator on understanding the modern world
from Dawn of Everything