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According to David Graeber and David Wengrow’s book
The Dawn of Everything, some pre-Columbian democracies, particularly in pre-Columbian Central America (present-day Mexico), YouTube, emphasized the containment of one’s ego rather than its flaunting.
This suggests a different model of political leadership and societal organization where humility, collective well-being, and potentially, reciprocal obligations among individuals and the community, played a significant role, rather than the pursuit of individual power or prestige.
The book highlights that such societies were able to achieve complex forms of organization and even monumental constructions without necessarily relying on hierarchical structures or authoritarian rule typically associated with the development of “civilization” in Western thought.
