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Yuval Noah Harari

  • Alisahas quoted2 years ago
    jumbo brain is a jumbo drain
  • Shubhankar Zingrehas quotedlast year
    War spreads ideas, technologies and people far more quickly than commerce.
  • Алёна Белобородоваhas quoted2 years ago
    Most top predators of the planet are majestic creatures. Millions of years of dominion have filled them with self-confidence. Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator. Having so recently been one of the underdogs of the savannah, we are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous. Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, have resulted from this over-hasty jump.
  • Алёна Белобородоваhas quoted2 years ago
    Yet none of these things exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.
  • Алёна Белобородоваhas quoted2 years ago
    limited liability companies
  • Алёна Белобородоваhas quoted2 years ago
    Telling effective stories is not easy. The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but in convincing everyone else to believe it. Much of history revolves around this question: how does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, or nations, or limited liability companies? Yet when it succeeds, it gives Sapiens immense power, because it enables millions of strangers to cooperate and work towards common goals. Just try to imagine how difficult it would have been to create states, or churches, or legal systems if we could speak only about things that really exist, such as rivers, trees and lions.
  • Алёна Белобородоваhas quoted2 years ago
    The immense diversity of imagined realities that Sapiens invented, and the resulting diversity of behaviour patterns, are the main components of what we call ‘cultures’.
  • Алёна Белобородоваhas quoted2 years ago
    As far as we know, the people who carved the Stadel lion-man some 30,000 years ago had the same physical, emotional and intellectual abilities we have.
  • Алёна Белобородоваhas quoted2 years ago
    The Stone Age should more accurately be called the Wood Age, because most of the tools used by ancient hunter-gatherers were made of wood.
  • Алёна Белобородоваhas quoted2 years ago
    The heated debates about Homo sapiens’ ‘natural way of life’ miss the main point. Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, there hasn’t been a single natural way of life for Sapiens. There are only cultural choices, from among a bewildering palette of possibilities.
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