"Social theory is largely a game of make-believe in which we pretend, just for the sake of argument, that there's just one thing going on: essentially, we reduce everything to a cartoon so as to be able to detect patterns that would be otherwise invisible. As a result, all real progress in social science has been rooted in the courage to say things that are, in the final analysis, slightly ridiculous: the works of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud or Claude Lévi-Strauss being only particularly salient cases in point. One must simplify the world to discover something new about it. The problem comes when, long after the discovery has been made, people continue to simplify."
-- "The Dawn of Everything" (2020), David Graeber and David Wengrow The Raku Study Group May 5, 2024 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got, ask and answer questions, or just listen and lurk. Perl and programming in general are fair game, along with Raku, Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81394187866?pwd=UDMydlQxLy9FNzhCeHBpTUR2YTV1UT09 Passcode: 4RakuRoll RSVPs are useful, though not needed: https://www.meetup.com/san-francisco-perl/events/300819351/
