Obligatory pitch for The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber, David Wengrow<p>which is a whole book about the challenging of the "Necessity of Cities" and "Agriculture Ends the Good Life" memes, as well as a few others that go mostly unchallenged in history books.<p><pre><code> A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state", political violence, and social inequality—revealing new possibilities for human emancipation</code></pre>