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“The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!”

― James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
tags: anthropology, archeology, civilization, garbage
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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott
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