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Ideas of Yuval Noah Harari, by Text
[Israeli, fl. 2014, Lecturer World History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.]
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2014
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Sapiens: brief history of humankind
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02 'Legend'
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p.29
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20663
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If a group is bound by gossip, the natural size is 150 people
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03 'Talking'
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p.60
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20664
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Animism is belief that every part of nature is aware and feeling, and can communicate
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12 'Battle'
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p.245
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20669
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Dualist religions see everything as a battleground of good and evil forces
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12 'Battle'
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p.246
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20670
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Dualist religions say the cosmos is a battleground, so can’t explain its order
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12 'Battle'
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p.246
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20671
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In order to explain both order and evil, a single evil creator is best, but no one favours that
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12 'Battle'
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p.248
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20673
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Manichaeans and Gnostics: good made spirit, evil made flesh
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12 'Benefits'
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p.238
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20666
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Most polytheist recognise one supreme power or law, behind the various gods
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12 'Benefits'
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p.239
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20667
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Polytheism is open-minded, and rarely persecutes opponents
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12 'God'
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p.242
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20668
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Monotheism appeared in Egypt in 1350 BCE, when the god Aten was declared supreme
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12 'Silencing'
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p.236
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20665
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Mythologies are usual contracts with the gods, exchanging devotion for control of nature
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12 'Worship'
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p.258
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20674
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The Nazi aim was to encourage progressive evolution, and avoid degeneration
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13 'Hindsight'
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p.266
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20675
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The more you know about history, the harder it becomes to explain
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13 'Hindsight'
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p.269
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20676
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History teaches us that the present was not inevitable, and shows us the possibilities
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14 'Discovery'
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p.275
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20677
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Since 1500 human population has increased fourteenfold, and consumption far more
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14 'Ignoramus'
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p.279
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20678
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The Scientific Revolution was the discovery of our own ignorance
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14 'Ignoramus'
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p.282
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20679
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We stabilise societies with dogmas, either of dubious science, or of non-scientific values
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16 'Columbus'
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p.353
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20684
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Financing is increasingly through credit rather than taxes; people prefer investing to taxation
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16 'Cult'
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p.367
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20685
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No market is free of political bias, and markets need protection of their freedoms
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16 'Growing'
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p.349
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20681
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The sacred command of capitalism is that profits must be used to increase production
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16 'Growing'
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p.351
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20682
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The main rule of capitalism is that all other goods depend on economic growth
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16 'Growing'
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p.352
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20683
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The progress of capitalism depends entirely on the new discoveries and gadgets of science
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17 'Age'
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p.390
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20687
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In capitalism the rich invest, and the rest of us go shopping
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17 'Intro'
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p.375
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20686
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For millenia people didn't know how to convert one type of energy into another
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18 'Collapse'
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p.401
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20689
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In 1750 losing your family and community meant death
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18 'Collapse'
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p.402
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20690
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The state fostered individualism, to break the power of family and community
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18 'Pax'
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p.415
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20691
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Real peace is the implausibility of war (and not just its absence)
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18 'Permanent'
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p.392
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20688
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People 300m tons; domesticated animals 700m tons; larger wild animals 100m tons
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19 'Counting'
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p.418
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20693
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Freedom may work against us, as individuals can choose to leave, and make fewer commitments
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19 'Counting'
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p.426
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20692
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Money does produce happiness, but only up to a point
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