Keir Martin and Theo Rakopoulos in
Jacobin:
Marshall Sahlins, who passed away at ninety on April 5, was not only the most notable anthropological writer of his generation; he was also a profoundly radical and influential thinker with a genuine commitment to political action.
There are many in the academy who fear that political engagement dilutes or undermines the purity of theoretical reflection. Sahlins’s life and work stands as a clear corrective to that position. Throughout his career, he was motivated by his opposition to oppression wherever he saw it, be it toward marginalized populations targeted by economic and military expansionism or toward academic communities threatened with the curtailment of their intellectual expression.
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isolated, despite what the ads for technology say. it s a very bereft place. we appreciate your candor, john zerzan, thank you. you re welcome. i want to bring in now jeff, a clinical psychologist. you just heard one clip of these recordings and i want to play another in which the caller compares the chimp attack to a teenager shooter in a mall. take a listen to this, jeff. this attack can be seen entirely parallel to the attacks of random acts of violence that you bring up on your show every week committed by humans, which the mainstream also has no explanation for. an actual human i don t think it would have been a stretch to say it could have been a teenage mall shooter or something like that. what do you make of these statements when you hear this? it sounds like this is a mirror of adam lanza s own soul in his mind, looking at society as forcing that chimp to create that havoc and how he likens that to humans doing that to