Sapiens LOL

 Professional jealousy and a genuinely urgent sense of his utter and dangerous wrongness led me to write Humankind as a riposte to Sapiens. What Graeber (was just befriending him when he died) and Wengrow say about Harari is the shiznit, every time (The Dawn of Everything). Basically, he's popular because he tells people exactly what they already know. Humans are special and different and liable to transhumanist godlike becoming. And there's "no way out" of inevitably oppressive social structures. Which is why he gets to talk at Davos and I don't. Grrrr...

The professional jealousy slash outrage nadir was in Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford 2019. Harari was on every single "important books" table, I assume he has an agent who insists on this. I was in the basement at the bottom right of a shelf at the back about "Earth Science." 

I can't get an agent because I have trouble telling people what I'm going to write, because creativity. So I do it all myself. I tried a few times and then just said, fuck it. I'd rather publish cheap and free things that agents don't like, anyway. 

That anarchist review someone sent me entirely misses the point of why Graeber and Wengrow wrote that. It's the same reason as why I had to tell John Zerzan to stop stalking me. It's a big old flaw of a lot of anarchist thought that it's caught in an Enlightenment rhetoric, whether upside down or the right way around: first we were great, now we're fucked. A fall narrative without the Jesus stuff. It's one reason Marx wrote "Who educates the educators?" The concept "Man" jerking off one more time. Colonialism upside down served with lashings of cynical reason. Destroy.