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kp_741 's review for:
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
This book accounts for it all, from physics to chemistry to biology to history and then just briefly opens the door to philosophy and mic-drops on a horrifying question.
I’ve enjoyed this as an explanation of who we are and what it means to be human. Perhaps reading this as a young parent has opened me up to this because I did not account for how much we are a blank slate. It was never so refreshing to see Consumerism presented as a religion, and one of the few successful ones at that, and did give voice to some rejections I’ve already been feeling on the subject.
It will give you absolutely no warm fuzzies as it’s penultimate conclusion is that happiness is fleeting and involves a shared amount of delusion, but I liked the incorporation of Buddhism and other lines of think presented from without the western liberal interpretations. Gives you hope that you could maybe find happiness without buying (literally and figuratively) into all the crap.
I’ve enjoyed this as an explanation of who we are and what it means to be human. Perhaps reading this as a young parent has opened me up to this because I did not account for how much we are a blank slate. It was never so refreshing to see Consumerism presented as a religion, and one of the few successful ones at that, and did give voice to some rejections I’ve already been feeling on the subject.
It will give you absolutely no warm fuzzies as it’s penultimate conclusion is that happiness is fleeting and involves a shared amount of delusion, but I liked the incorporation of Buddhism and other lines of think presented from without the western liberal interpretations. Gives you hope that you could maybe find happiness without buying (literally and figuratively) into all the crap.