# The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

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- Book: [The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-graeber/the-ultimate-hidden-truth-of-the-world) ([The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-graeber/the-ultimate-hidden-truth-of-the-world.md))
- Authors: [David Graeber](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-graeber)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-161-1
- Published: 2024-11-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently,' wrote David Graeber, as well-known for his sharp, lively essays as he was for his iconic role in the Occupy movement and his paradigm-shifting tomes. There are converging political, economic, and ecological crises, and yet our politics is dominated by either business as usual or nostalgia for a mythical past. Thinking against the grain, Graeber was one of the few who dared to imagine a new understanding of the past and a liberatory vision of the future — to imagine a social order based on humans’ fundamental freedom. In essays published over three decades and ranging across the biggest issues of our time — inequality, technology, the identity of 'the West,' democracy, art, power, anger, mutual aid, and protest — he challenges the old assumptions about political life. A trenchant critic of the order of things, and driven by a bold imagination and a passionate commitment to human freedom, he offers hope that our world can be different. During a moment of daunting upheaval and pervasive despair, the incisive, entertaining, and urgent essays collected in The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . . , edited and with an introduction by Nika Dubrovksy and with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit, make for essential and inspiring reading. They are a profound reminder of Graeber’s enduring significance as an iconic, playful, necessary thinker.