Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari 2011
580 pages
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✔ History of humans
✔ Focuses on the struggles and greed
🔽 Review summary 🔽
★★★★☆ It is scary to think just how we continue to demand to be strong, stepping on all the other animal and the ecosystem that surrounds us - and, on other fellow human beings.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
One of the most talked about books in the last decade.
As I was warned, it is interesting, clever, provoking but above all scary.
It is scary to think just how we evolved to be the most powerful being on the planet, and how we continue to demand to be strong, stepping on all the other animal and the ecosystem that surrounds us - and, on other fellow human beings.
If you stop and think, it's crazy how we're destroying our world by selfish.
As he says, the earth is a big shopping centre.
We love to consume and want more - but what exactly do we want?
What is the happiness that we want?
And in future, when we evolve to something new, what new things will we want?
Another scary part is, he doesn't seem to criticise this aspect of our greed and seem to just speak about it, which might be alarming.
So though interesting, I don't like it, and I kept it with 4 stars only.
🔽 Where to buy 🔽
●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●
Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition]: A Brief History of Humankind
●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: The multi-million copy bestseller
●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
Sapiens. Da animali a dèi: Breve storia dell'umanità (Italiano)
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