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Ci sono alcune parti che non condivido di questo libro, ma apprezzo molto l’analisi lucida di altre. Il capitolo sulla laicità è molto ben scritto ad esempio, mentre trovo un po’ scadente l’ultimo capitolo. Mi son convinto a mettere 4 stelle soprattutto per l capacità dell’autore di rendere in formato divulgativo un’affresco della moderna umanità che difficilmente si riesce a riassumere così bene. Certo ci sono argomenti discutibili e conclusioni non sempre condivisibili. Ma ha sicuramente il merito di riuscire a sintetizzare tanti temi tutti di vitale importanza. E di sottolineare come ognuno di noi abbia una scelta da fare rispetto al futuro. ( )
It’s no criticism to say that Harari hasn’t produced a satisfying answer yet. Neither has anyone else. So I hope he turns more fully to this question in the future. In the meantime, he has teed up a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the 21st century.
Wittgenstein schreef dat filosofie alles zou moeten laten zoals het is: de wereld beschrijven en ordenen, zonder die uit te willen leggen of conclusies te willen trekken en daarmee de werkelijkheid geweld aandoen. Historicus Harari lijkt zich in precies zo’n spagaat te bevinden. Hij wil de geschiedenis beschrijven zoals die was, huidige wetenschappelijke en technologische ontwikkelingen weergeven zoals die zijn. Maar in zijn drang om conclusies te trekken en lessen aan te dragen, wordt zijn verhaal een theoretisch construct dat raakvlakken mist met de werkelijkheid.
[T]his book sees Harari enter that class of gurus who are assumed to be experts on everything. The 22nd lesson of this book is obvious: no single member of the tribe Homo Sapiens can know everything. If this new age needs new stories, then we have to let more people tell them.
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Russia is one of the most unequal countries in the world, with 87 percent of wealth concentrated in the hands of the richest 10 percent of people.
The U.S. armed forces need thirty people to operate every unmanned Predator or Reaper drone flying over Syria, while analyzing the resultant harvest of information occupies at least eighty people more. In 2015, the U.S. Air Force lacked sufficient trained humans to fill all these positions, and therefore faced an ironic crisis in manning its unmanned aircraft.
Today, the richest 1 percent own half the world's wealth. Even more alarmingly, the richest one hundred people together more than the poorest 4 billion.
Devices, such as Google Glass and games such as Pokémon Go are designed to erase the distinction between online and off-line, merging them into a single augmented reality.
Since the 1950s, superpowers avoided conflicts with one another because they all knew that war meant mutually assured destruction.
Though globalization has greatly reduced cultural differences across the planet, it has simultaneously made it far easier to encounter strangers and become upset by their oddities.
People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against traditional racism Without noticing that the battlefront has shifted. Traditional racism is waning, but the world is now full of “culturalists”.
You have the worst problem with culturist claims is that despite their statistical nature they are all too often used to prejudge individuals.
Terrorism is the weapon of a marginal and weak segment of humanity. How did it come to dominate global politics?
Terrorists calculate that when the enraged enemy uses his massive power against them, he will raise a much more violent military and political storm than the terrorists themselves ever could create. During every storm, many unforeseen things happen. Mistakes are made, atrocities are committed, public opinion wavers, neutrals change their stance, and the balance of power shifts.
Above all, if we want to come back terrorism, effectively, we must realize that nothing the terrorist do can defeat us. We are the only ones who can defeat ourselves, if we overreact in a misguided way to their provocations.
This warped concept of “the three great religions” often implies in the mind of Israelis that all major, religious and ethical traditions emerged out of the womb of Judaism, which was the first religion to preach universal, ethical rules – – as if humans prior to the days of Abraham and Moses lived in the Hobbesian state of nature with any moral commitment, and as if all contemporary morality derive from the Ten Commandments. This is a baseless and insolent idea, which ignores many of the world's most important ethical traditions.
This suspicion is greatly strengthened by the fact that the Bible commands Jews to exterminate certain people such as the Amalekites and the Canaanites…This is one of the first recorded instances in human history when genocide was presented as a binding religious duty.
The most important secular commitment is to the truth, which is based on observation and evidence rather than on mere faith…The other chief commitment of secular people is to compassion…The twin commitments to truth and compassion result also in a commitment to equality…We cannot search for the truth and for the way out of suffering without the freedom to think, investigate, and experiment…Finally, secular people cherish responsibility.
Since I depend for my existence on a mind-boggling network of economic and political ties, and since global causal connections are so tangled, I find it difficult to answer even the simplest questions. Such as where my lunch comes from, who made the shoes I'm wearing, and what my pension fund is doing with my money.
I am aware that many people might be upset by my equating religion with fake news, but that's exactly the point. When a thousand people believe some made-up story for one month, that's fake news. When a billion people believe it for a thousand years, that's a religion, and we are admonished not to call it “fake news” in order not to hurt the feelings of the faithful (or incite their wrath).
Adam and Eve never existed, but Chartres Cathedral is still beautiful. Much of the Bible may be fictional, but it can still bring joy to billions and can still encourage humans to be compassionate, courageous, and creative—just like other great works of fiction, such as Don Quixote, War and Peace, and the Harry Potter books.
As a species, people prefer power to truth. We spend far more time and effort on trying to control the world than on trying to understand it—and even when we try to understand it, we usually do so in the hope that understanding the world will make it easier to control it.
One of the greatest fictions of all is to deny the complexity of the world and think in absolute terms: pristine purity versus satanic evil.
…if you want reliable information, pay good money for it.
To the best of our scientific understanding, none of the thousands of stories that different cultures, religions, and tribes have invented throughout history is true.
It is fascinating and terrifying to behold people spending countless hours constructing and embellishing a perfect self online, becoming attached to their own creation, and mistaking it for the truth about themselves. That's how a family holiday fraught with traffic jams, petty squabbles, and tense silences become a collection of beautiful panoramas, perfect dinners, and smiling faces; 99% of what we experience never becomes part of the story of the self.
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Mi son convinto a mettere 4 stelle soprattutto per l capacità dell’autore di rendere in formato divulgativo un’affresco della moderna umanità che difficilmente si riesce a riassumere così bene.
Certo ci sono argomenti discutibili e conclusioni non sempre condivisibili. Ma ha sicuramente il merito di riuscire a sintetizzare tanti temi tutti di vitale importanza. E di sottolineare come ognuno di noi abbia una scelta da fare rispetto al futuro. ( )