His writing style is poetic and enjoyable, although this was perhaps 50 pages too long. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural.
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. He slips a few times, but he gets it right a few times too, which is rare. First, you never admit that the order is imagined. This book is mainly about framing the right questions, not providing the ultimate answers, but that's half the work anyway.Īlso, this is one of the few books that actually explains how evolution (aka mutation + natural selection) works, rather than just anthropomorphising it and giving it purposes, which always creates confusion.
That said, he does a pretty good job of deconstructing religion and mythology and describing the world as it really is, and paints a fairly plausible picture of where it's all going. The bibliography of this book must have been small, because he hardly quotes studies or experts, he just talks about studies and experts from his own vantage point and incorporates their ideas into his grand narrative. but dragged on a bit, and felt like Harari was just pooling together his wealth of general knowledge and armchair-philosophising it to the masses.
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