“Sapiens” Yuval Noah Harari (2011) Review | We demand to be stronger

★★★★☆ 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.





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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari  2011
580 pages
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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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  1. 『サピエンス全史』ユヴァル・ノア・ハラリ 2011年 感想 | 人間の強さと恐ろしさ – 赤パンの本棚 のアバター

    […] 🔽🔽 読書記録 🔽🔽出版以来ずっと騒がれている一冊。言われていたように、興味深く、挑発的で、こわい。私達はこの惑星上一番強い存在であり、もっと強くあろうと前進する。他の生物やこの環境を踏みにじってでも。そう、仲間であるはずの他の人間を踏みにじってでも。ちょっと止まって考えると、自分たちの世界を自分たちのよくのために壊すというのは狂気の沙汰でしかない。著者の言う通り、地球は大きなショッピングセンターで、私達は常に次々と消費し、もっともっと求めるわけだけど、私達は結局何が欲しいのか。どういう幸せがほしいのか。今後人間が進化するとして、その未来で私達は何を求めるのか。そしてもう一つこわいのは著者は人間の長い歴史の欲望に批判的ではないところ。淡々と歴史として否定の色を見せずに書き示すというのは肯定しているふうにも見える。なので興味深い本であっても好きではないので★4🔽 関連ページ 🔽English review "Sapiens" Yuval Noah Harari (2011) Review | We demand to be stronger […]

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  2. Wakafuji のアバター
    Wakafuji

    Re: “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”

    Great observation about Harari’s writings!

    What’s even scarier is that 98% of all people who read his stuff or listen to his podcasts/interviews “think” he’s brilliant and insightful! It should tell anyone what sort of world we live in…

    Once you understand clearly what Hararis and whom he serves it makes sense why he “does not”he doesn’t seem to criticise this aspect of our greed” and many other absurdities of his.

    Harari’s MISDIRECTING “Cognitive Revolution” (Homo Deus) PROPAGANDA notions on homo sapiens is meant to normalize the sick scheme of transhumanism (pushed by the ruling class of criminals) among the endlessly ignorant/foolish public.

    “The book teaches readers to distrust myths, then builds its own myth-shaped narrative to carry them through 70,000 years.” —Davide Piffer, scientific researcher, on Harari’s “Sapiens” book [https://archive.is/3XcqK]

    “His [Harari] broad, sweeping narratives about the future of humanity and “dataism” provide the elite alliance with a secular eschatology. His claims are frequently criticized by specialists for being scientifically dubious and more akin to high-level storytelling than rigorous research.” —Luke Ford, Writer [https://archive.is/kXxpt]

    Yuval Harari, affiliated with Schwab’s WEF’s [https://archive.md/vrZGf] and one of WEF’s frontman psychopaths [https://www.bitchute.com/video/Alhj4UwNWp2m] and who is sold as an intellectual “genius” or “prophet” by this crazy world, is the person who called you and me and all other commoners “useless people” [https://archive.ph/KlOKx] — while millions of those “useless people” have been buying and recommending his books like candy (to learn his “lessons”), serving him very usefully. It’s one proof that most people anywhere are stupid and crazy (while “thinking” they’re intelligent and non-crazy). It’s the meeting of the “thinker” with the non-thinkers.

    The SELECTIVE narrative Harari choses in his writings (STEERING and CONTROLLING what you should believe [https://www.bitchute.com/video/Alhj4UwNWp2m & https://www.corbettreport.com/harari%5D) to describe and categorize homo sapiens’ “cognitive revolution” omits the key human elements (ie self-delusion, grandiosity, manipulation, deception, lunacy — all of which shine thru for any lucid reader of his ‘Sapiens’ book and other works of his biased propaganda (that serves to normalize transhumanism and psychopathy), and that he himself engages in and manifests!) that has led humans to be largely destructive and therefore not being wise (sapiens) at all.

    Instead, manipulative Harari’s self-serving focus has been for many years on humans’ capacity to believe fictional stories and therefore can be controlled via narrative, fictional or not, as long as everyone believes the same story — the official story, the authorized narrative, such on 9/11 or on Covid, etc. This interplay of human capacity to trust and follow “official” narratives AND the major controllers of these authorized narratives, ie the psychopathic authorities in power, is coherently explained by the reality-based theory of “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room” (see https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html) that curates the human condition and the crazy world we always have lived in.

    Even just somewhat more coherent intellectuals as psychopathic Harari have also recognized Harari’s ethics-empty “extremely dangerous” propaganda (while still naively, self-foolingly and falsely believing Harari is “brilliant”) [https://archive.ph/zFwwH]. The production of such “persuasive” but extremely dangerous propaganda a la Harari is of course typical of psychopaths.

    “You don’t live in a free country. And no, it’s not because they make you pay taxes or that time they made you wear a mask or whatever. The real reason you don’t live in a free country is much, much bigger than that: you don’t live in a free country because the minds of your countrymen are imprisoned. Westerners think they’re free because they can say whatever they want and vote however they want, but WHAT THEY WANT is controlled by mass-scale psychological manipulation. Being able to speak and vote as you wish is meaningless if the powerful CONTROL WHAT IT IS THAT YOU WISH.” — Caitlin Johnstone, Independent Journalist

    “COVID is critical because this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize, total biometric surveillance.” — Yuval Noah Harari, World Economic Forum member [https://archive.md/vrZGf]

    Anyone still not capable of seeing that Harari is an insane psychopath? Perhaps this will do it…

    “From a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.” — Yuval Noah Harari, in a Tweet on August 24th, 2023 (https://archive.ph/pC6L2)

    Author Walker Larson exposed “the horror” of that insane statement: “If something can be done, it is natural; whatever is natural shouldn’t be prohibited; therefore, anything that can be done should not be prohibited.” & “For people like Harari, everything is morally neutral because nothing has an objective purpose and everything is just another glob of molecules.” & “…all manner of malevolence and brutality becomes justifiable in the minds of the perpetrators—as 20th-century history has taught us.” & [Harari’s sentences] if acted upon, are the harbingers of tyranny, terror, and torture.” (https://archive.ph/pjixD)

    Here is some advice by a AI bot on how to NOT end up in the global digital prison the ruling class of psychopaths want you and everyone else locked up in…

    “First, use cash wherever possible to slow the transition to CBDCs. Avoid reliance on digital-only payments. Second, grow or source local food to reduce dependence on centralised supply chains—support small farmers and community markets instead of corporations. Third, protect privacy: limit data shared online, avoid unnecessary smart devices, and use privacy tools to resist surveillance. Fourth, say no to digital IDs—do not adopt them voluntarily, even if marketed as ‘convenient’. Fifth, build strong communities. Isolation fuels control, but networks of like-minded people create resilience. Share skills, trade directly, and support one another outside globalist systems. Sixth, CHALLENGE PROPAGANDA BY SPREADING AWARENESS, questioning narratives, and encouraging independent thinking. A CONTROLLED POPULATION BEGINS IN THE MIND; breaking that spell disrupts compliance. Finally, PRACTICE NON-COMPLIANCE WITH UNJUST RULES. Each time a person says ‘no’ to unjust rules, they reclaim sovereignty. Courage builds gradually through practice, not all at once. TYRANNY DEPENDS ON OBEDIENCE. If enough people refuse to comply peacefully—whether with digital tracking, restrictions, or censorship—the system cannot function. The core principle: WITHDRAW PARTICIPATION FORM SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO ENSLAVE, and REDIRECT ENERGY TOWARDS LOCAL, HUMAN-CENTERED ALTERNATIVES. Freedom survives only if people ACTIVELY LIVE IT.” — AI Chat bot in 2025 (https://archive.ph/Wdzsg)

    Get the FREE report “Life Under Digital ID: A Global Analysis with Solutions” at https://abovephone.com/digital-id (“Digital ID is most important issue of this generation, this technology is the cornerstone of a surveillance system that tracks everything about everyone, LOCKING OUT THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY.”)

    “As financial access, employment, and administration become conditional on algorithmic systems, freedom does not disappear through overt coercion, but through participation that is scored, filtered, and managed.” — Mark Keenan, Dec 2025 [https://www.globalresearch.ca/ai-operating-system-digital-totalitarianism/5909796]

    “Don’t believe anything these people tell you, ABOUT ANYTHING. It isn’t time for a civil war against your neighbors, it is time for a revolution against these hoaxers and thieves.” — Miles Mathis, American author

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