Interesting show and talk. First time seeing it. Not sure where your mic is but the sound’s a little low. You may already be aware of the book, but I would say a good follow up to this discussion should be the book “The Dawn of Everything” by Graeber and Wengrow.
Thank you for checking us out and welcome aboard. The recommendation you've made is actually a very strong one. While Rousseau himself was not an anthropologist, the social contract genre inevitably concerns itself with anthropology in the sense of man's pre-government condition. Could be a good book for a coming episode.