yuval noah harari 21 lessons for the 21st century

How many wish to immigrate to China, India or Vietnam? People are willing to undergo extreme hardship to just cross the border and come to the US though there is so much bad press about how immigrants are treated badly, especially the ones from south of the border. So true! There are millions of people who wish to immigrate to the US, Germany, Canada or Australia. Loved the paragraph about “Humans vote with their feet”. Nostalgia - Britain thinking of old glory, Islamist thinking of how things were 1400 yrs back during Caliphate, Zionists dreaming of going back 2,500 years back, and so forth! With the rise of Trump and Brexit in 2016, people seem to have developed a liking for the old racist and nationalist views. Harari says that 2008 financial crisis precipitated the disillusionment and gave rise to a lot of pro-national sentiments. Let’s build a world of freedom and equality.ġ938 - 3 global stories to choose from, 1968 - 2 stories to choose from (liberal, communist), 1998 - a single story (liberal democracy), 2018 - no story. The liberal story - History is a struggle of liberty and tyranny.The communist story - History is a struggle of classes where the upper class always tried to subjugate the lower.Let’s give importance to our nation and our ideals. The fascist story - History is a struggle of nations/races and one tries to subjugate another.Harari had mentioned in Sapiens that the key reason for ascendency of Homo Sapiens was the story telling ability. Part I: The Technological Challenge Chapter 1: Disillusionment It is like reading 21 essays on different topics, well-articulated essays. He takes 21 problems, or 21 pressing concerns that the world if facing right now and addresses each of them. The author mentions that Sapiens was about the past of humanity, Home Deus was about the future and this book is about the present. It alters your perspective of the world and you begin to see the entire human history in a different light. But whatever I had heard, it was thought provoking and a well written book. Hoping to read the book on print/kindle in the future. Audio books are much slower reads than actual reading and I sometimes tend to zone out. During my practice runs for the half-marathon that I was running that year and also during the run itself. I had listened to ‘Sapiens’ through Hoopla a couple of years back. That was a magical train journey - to go through untouched snow in a vast land seemingly out of nowhere.

The bulk of the reading was done during the full-day train journey from Anchorage to Fairbanks on the 3rd day of the trip. Read on the flight from SF to Portland and from there to Anchorage. I read this book on the way to and during the Alaska Trip that we took during last winter (2019).

Yuval noah harari 21 lessons for the 21st century