Is there an alternative vision of humanity?

Graeber and Wengrow think so in The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. They lay out a convincing case that the modern notion of social evolution is an ideological narrative devoid of empirical support. And worse, a conservative response to legitimate critique from American Indians whose wisdom they misappropriated and misconstrued in the Enlightenment. And yet all subsequent Western European philosophy, including its American inheritors, are unconsciously grounded by the false premises propping it up. This book is a wake up call based on empirical evidence that there is an alternative paradigm that has worked throughout the ages and can work again if we'd only remove our blinders. Big if, I know.