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chickenrice 's review for:
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
Enjoyed this more than both Sapiens and Homo Deus.
Like its predecessors, the book features the author's multidisciplinary and provocative musings on various threads running through history. This book felt more grounded and somewhat practical - not surprising given that it was indeed supposed to be comparatively more focused on the present and immediate future.
Many nuggets of wisdom and insightful observations scattered alongside the numerous hilarious burns (as long as you agree) of religion and nationalism and other infantile stories that we humans have not yet weaned off.
At the same time, the book is also a depressing one - think Black Mirror mixed with A Brave New World mixed with Christopher Hitchens and Paul R. Ehrlich. We are indeed a species facing potentially catastrophic problems on a global scale, while still stupidly squabbling about parochial, ephemeral trivialities.
Like its predecessors, the book features the author's multidisciplinary and provocative musings on various threads running through history. This book felt more grounded and somewhat practical - not surprising given that it was indeed supposed to be comparatively more focused on the present and immediate future.
Many nuggets of wisdom and insightful observations scattered alongside the numerous hilarious burns (as long as you agree) of religion and nationalism and other infantile stories that we humans have not yet weaned off.
At the same time, the book is also a depressing one - think Black Mirror mixed with A Brave New World mixed with Christopher Hitchens and Paul R. Ehrlich. We are indeed a species facing potentially catastrophic problems on a global scale, while still stupidly squabbling about parochial, ephemeral trivialities.