Summary Of The Case Against Civilization John Lanchester

In a world that is often overwhelming and hard to understand, it’s easy to reminisce about how much simpler our early ancestors lives must have been. A time when society was less advanced certainly had less conflict than we did now. In his 2017 article entitled “The Case Against Civilization: Did our hunter-gatherer ancestors have it better?” John Lanchester examines how different primitive technologies have advanced society, and if we really are better off now than we were then. He primarily focuses on the writings of James C. Scott, a professor of political science at Yale. In some ways, Lanchester’s article is just a summary of Scott’s work. He uses his different books as a basis for many of his points. His first argument is that fire