The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .

Essays

De: David Graeber, Nika Dubrovsky - editor

Narrado por: Jacques Servin, Savitri D

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews.

"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently," wrote David Graeber. A renowned anthropologist, activist, and author of such classic books as Debt and the breakout New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything (with David Wengrow), Graeber was as well-known for his sharp, lively essays as he was for his iconic role in the Occupy movement and his paradigm-shifting tomes.

There are converging political, economic, and ecological crises, and yet our politics is dominated by either business as usual or nostalgia for a mythical past. Thinking against the grain, Graeber was one of the few who dared to imagine a new understanding of the past and a liberatory vision of the future—to imagine a social order based on humans’ fundamental freedom. In essays published over three decades and ranging across the biggest issues of our time— inequality, technology, the identity of “the West,” democracy, art, power, anger, mutual aid, and protest—he challenges the old assumptions about political life. A trenchant critic of the order of things, and driven by a bold imagination and a passionate commitment to human freedom, he offers hope that our world can be different.

During a moment of daunting upheaval and pervasive despair, the incisive, entertaining, and urgent essays collected in The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . . , edited and with an introduction by Nika Dubrovsky and with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit, make for essential and inspiring reading. They are a profound reminder of Graeber’s enduring significance as an iconic, playful, necessary thinker.

Most Original Honest & Thinker

It refreshing to have someone who dedicated their life to debunking the pervasive academic lies that we’re all just a bunch of selfish robots who need to be ruled by bureaucratic overlords; that consciousness and free will are an illusion; and that kindness or play without ulterior motives is some form of weakness. David Graeber’s ideas are the antidote to that defective logic that would have us all outsource all work, thinking and creativity to artificial “intelligence” so that we can enjoy the privilege of spending 100% of our lives consuming the mediocre products of of the corporate robot workforce.

You know you’ll like this

If you’re looking at this book it means you know Graeber already which means you’ll love this.

An important read

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the Universe? We create it! A fun and engaging series of essays.

Worst narration I've heard

It's Graeber, so you know you're getting a good dose of well-reasoned cultural deconstruction. Unfortunately the narrator has an extremely flamboyant manner of speaking whose intonation, tone, and cadence don't fit the verbiage, and I simply cannot follow the logic the voice is supposed to be conveying. I prefer audiobooks because of cognitive issues but it looks like I'm gonna have to read this one.

Hilarious and thought provoking

A brilliant and hysterical challenge to our indoctrination and assumptions. A brutal critique of capitalism and supremacy. A life affirming celebration of humanity. I love this so much