![]() Based on Klein’s interview, Harari seems a genuinely weird dude, but (like the similarly strange Nassim Nicholas Taleb) madness seems to be required in project like this. Now I also echo the critiques made by some of Harari’s reviewers that his treatment of topics outside his field of expertise is flippant and sometimes wrong some of his sources seem about ten years out of date and the second half of the book runs off the rails to become an unfortunate exercise in futurism. Harari has hit on some very powerful insights, insights shared with my own work, “ Politics for the New Dark Age”. ![]() Having finally read the book a few weeks back, I have to say I misjudged it. Harari’s book, “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” has been on my to-read list for a while, but when I skimmed the first few pages in the bookstore, its out-of-date account of human evolutionary history put me off for a book supposedly about the history of our species. But listening to Ezra’s interview with historian Yuval Noah Harari (it’s the March 27 episode, for those interested), something tweaked my interest. I typically find and the merry band of policy wonks at The Weeds to be insufferably smug.
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