#Resource # NVC notes Graeber, in The Dawn of Everything (co-written with David Wengrow), showed through archaeological and anthropological evidence that human societies have organised themselves in radically diverse ways across history — many of them non-hierarchical, many of them strikingly egalitarian — and that the assumption of inevitable domination is a story told by those who benefit from it, not an anthropological fact. The connection to NVC is this: if Graeber and Kropotkin are right that cooperation is deeply human, and Rosenberg is right that conflict is primarily the product of unmet needs and a learned language of domination — then the political project and the interpersonal project are the same project. Learning to hear needs, to speak from needs rather than judgements, to meet conflict with curiosity rather than retaliation — this is not therapy. It is the practice of a different kind of society.