Brutkey

David Graeber Institute
@DGI@graeber.social

We recently published a lesser known article by David Graeber written in 2013 called - Buncombe.

Here is the piece and an extract.

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/buncombe

"America is a country made possible by hucksterism
and carnival buncombe. It's the birthplace of both
modern PR and advertising, the first place on earth to
apply techniques of commercial marketing to politics,
and a country where, for at least thirty years, the
economy has been driven by the engine of finance,
that is, by the magical creation of wealth through
financial securities and derivatives. When you
consider those U.S companies that still produce
commodities now devote themselves mainly to
developing brands and images, you realize that
American capitalism conjures value into being
chiefly by convincing everyone it’s there."
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- David Graeber