I Think David Graeber Would Find it Ironic

David Graeber was a very important anthropologist; I really admired him. He's deceased, and I have read 2 of his most popular books, 'BS Jobs' and 'The Dawn of Everything.' Graeber was an anarchist, very political; he was involved with the American MMT movement and 'Occupy Wall Street.' The thing is 'anthropologists' staff a lot of think tanks. Left wingers identify them as CIA agents trying to drive the political agenda; apparently, right wingers see them as credible staff for economic and social policy research institutes. I suggest both see the career as inocuous. Hence, deceptive? Anthropologists by definition observe human society, past and present; they don't predict human social behaviours, but like historians investigate what human beings have already done. So, it's kind of funny to see them as staffing for think tanks which advise governments on future policy trends. Graeber would see it as ironic and clearly indicative of the reality think tanks are always wrong. People invested in the past are not interested in where the future is going; they are hardly predicators of what it will be. They're simply not interested. So, it's kind of funny both political groups identify them as harbingers of it. Graeber would find that ironic. But, also, in and of itself, indicator of where the world is going. Golden Age? Pre-Industrial Revolution? Crafting? I suspect a lot of corporations are in for a shock.