Sapiens Rule
I received this book as a gift. As I
write this there are 5,488 reviews of Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s
book. As a result I will be unusually brief. Harari’s history take us through
what he characterizes as the three revolutions in the history of humans,
cognitive, agricultural and scientific. The success of those revolutions led to
the complete domination of humans over the planet which in Harari’s mind
resulted in a distinct loss in wellbeing for the other animals on our planet.
What struck me the most was Harari’s
view that three most important systems that engendered trust among humans are
money, empire and religion. About money he writes this, “Money is the most
universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised!” With money,
empire and religion under assault by modern liberalism, it is no wonder that
trust has broken down and it seems socially and politically much of humanity,
especially in the West, is at each other’s throats.
Read the other reviews to get a more
comprehensive take on the book, but I was certainly glad to read this well
thought out and well written book, although not without it faults, on the
evolution of humanity.
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