‘Sapiens’ A brief history of humankind is a must read! — theclockworkreader

Having just completed it, I can say that it has changed my life. It has given me a new perspective on how brief our time on this planet has been, as well as a better understanding of the effect of our actions on the environment and how significant the choices we make today will be for tomorrow’s future.

‘Sapiens’ fascinating book

Sapiens is arguably the most interesting book I’ve ever read, delving into the most critical revolutions in human history, including the cognitive revolution, agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, and current scientific revolution.
Harari claims that the scientific revolution was enabled by Homo sapiens’ recognition that there might be things in the universe that we don’t know for the first time in history. The book’s aim is to cover the evolution of Homo Sapiens from “only one monkey among many” to today’s multicultural world of approximately 7 billion Sapiens, vehicles, ships, skyscrapers, computers, and international financial markets. In a nutshell, it’s a conceptual bird’s-eye view of human growth from the outset. The advent of spoken language, literature, and later mathematics, the rise and fall of empires, the sustained ascent of money, trade, industry, and capitalism, the apparent superiority of males, and the position of religion and science are all covered.

Science is a fiction?

Harari claims that the scientific revolution was enabled by Homo sapiens’ recognition that there might be things in the universe that we don’t know for the first time in history.
Pre-modern practises such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Confucianism, on the other hand, all claimed that everything important to know about the world is already understood, according to Harari. It was unthinkable that the Holy books would have omitted a key cosmic secret, and while there might have been things we didn’t realise, they weren’t significant enough for the Gods to have taught us otherwise.
This idea now seems so alien, and Harari claims that what sparked the scientific revolution was the recognition that Homo sapiens are collectively ignorant about the most critical issues in life.

Final Thoughts

It’s a lot of fun, and there’s not a single point in the 466 pages where the book gets tedious. The writing is lighthearted and casual. Look at some of the chapter and sub-chapter titles: “History’s, Biggest Fraud,” “The scent of Money,” “There’s No Justice in History,” and “And they Lived Happily Ever After,” to name a few. Harari, on the other hand, never annoys the reader with excessive detail. Your mind will not be clogged with the complexities of vast histories or irrelevant natural reality.

Originally published at https://theclockworkreader.com on April 21, 2021.