Kandiaronk on Law and Punishment

Excerpt from 'The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity' by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Lahontan: This is why the wicked need to be punished, and the good need to be rewarded. Otherwise, murder, robbery and defamation would spread everywhere, and, in a word, we would become the most miserable people upon the face of the earth.

Kandiaronk: For my own part, I find it hard to see how you could be much more miserable than you already are. What kind of human, what species of creature, must Europeans be, that they have to be forced to do good, and only refrain from evil because of fear of punishment?...
You have observed that we lack judges. What is the reason for that? Well, we never bring lawsuits against one another. And why do we never bring lawsuits? Well, because we made a decision neither to accept or make use of money. And why do we refuse to allow money into our communities? The reason is this: we are determined not to have laws – because, since the world was a world, our ancestors have been able to live contentedly without them.

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My blog will be shifting focus... I'm saying goodbye to the old citizen zero, because I don't feel like much of a citizen. So the title now reads 'Denizen One: Voice of The Precariat', rather than 'Citizen Zero: Your Voice Counts'. A small change, but an important one. I am currently reading Guy Standing's The Precariat, and I quite like some of the ideas. Stay tuned.

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The state treats the precariat as necessary but as a group to be criticized, pitied, demonized, sanctioned or penalized in turn, not as a focus of social protection or betterment of well-being. -Guy Standing, 'A Precariat Charter' Before I get into this, just a quick reminder that I am actually going through a very hard time, experiencing violence and bullying at home (I live in a public housing block). I deal with it by getting out of the house as soon as I wake and not returning until I am exhausted enough to pass out. I do these posts on the fly, on the move and under extreme duress, so you'll have to excuse the rushed nature of both the text and audio. I truly appreciate anyone who is prepared to hear what I have to say, especially considering the clunky format. One thing I did forget to mention in my little rave here is that the job seekers we are speaking about have for the most part lost all their bargaining power and are coerced into accepting whatever wages ...

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