Sapiens: The Book

I got this book last Christmas as a present from my Da, I've recently gotten around to finishing it. I just wanted to know what ye think of it

I know nothing about this book but I do recall my friend possessing a copy. She more than likely knows all about it.

I have it too but watched that Lex Fridman interview with the author and got the impression that he was such a pseudointellectual it's hard to find the motivation to start.

I yet have to read it. Now that you remind me, I'll keep it in mind, however this author, Yuval Harari looks like despite coming from a privileged background still got bullied in school and from the interviews that I've watched of him arrived at similar conclusions as I. Where everything about an individual and what's going on in society is merely a product of biochemical machinations, though also fell into the intellectual fallacies where he essentially thinks he can play god simply from that basic realization. Fair, I need to look deeper into his work but from what I've seen, heard and read he's a detriment to the "I heckin love science" crowd.

Can somebody tell me what is special about this book?

>>10000 nothing really, its just pop science bullshit. he makes a bunch of stupid claims

I studied anthropology (self-taught autist) and generally Harari isn't taken seriously by most anthropologists who seem him as more of a pop science writer than a serious intellectual. Its mostly a mix of obvious duh moment truisms with speculation, pseudointellectual bullshit, and poorly sourced claims. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1063851220974260 Harari comes off as a self-congratulating ideological zealot who's view of history just so happens to confirm his transhumanist views. You should always be suspicious of that. Its too convenient. He breaks up human history into just four stages. Now think about just how diverse and complex humans are. Can you really break all that up and reduce it to just four stages? It stinks. There are a lot of naive generalizations and painting of whole periods of history with a broad brush and outright false claims that come straight from pop culture. Worryingly, Harari claims Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs And Steel was his inspiration. Its a book infamous for butchering history and was written by a biologist not a historian. There's this dumb trend of big brain STEMtards thinking their neuroscience degrees make them experts in the humanities and whenever some lit user calls them out on their ignorant bullshit they whine about postmodernism. Harari seems part of this trend really. Although, most of his academic publications are on military history. Okay, well if your going to write a history of humanity you need to be very knowledgeable on human cultures and social history and Harari clearly isn't. He makes retarded beginner level mistakes. Like he depicts the scientific revolution as humans overcoming their ignorance and religion to embrace science but his beloved Isaac Newton was a straight up occultist who believed God personally gave him special powers. Has Harari read Medieval Christian literature? Those people were hardcore Aristotelian rationalists. It would probably do him some good because he clearly doesn't comprehend basic logic. Harari is basically a budget Foucault for midwits who appeals to the nihilism of modern Western society.

methoughts itwas but an aeroport booke. silly but eye catching

I got one of those for christmas too. But mine was a comic version. Very cool. Would recommend

>>9952 I read it on the beach when I was a bum. It was entertaining, nothing ground breaking. He has a pessimistic view of the world that comes through at the end of the book. I come from an economics background so a lot of what he had to say didn’t make much sense to me.

I remember reading it a long time ago when I was still in school, long enough that I can't really remember any details. But I recall it being quite coherent, overall some entertaining and self-consistent arguments but nothing worth taking away from. Maybe it's a good read for fun, but again I doubt it provides any profound insights about the world, more just unjustified speculations that appear to be big brain and deep.

>>9952 That book is wild unwashed dog dick. Throw it in the trash, and then throw after it any part of you that liked it. Absolute Last Man sheeeit>>9952

I have not personally read Sapiens but I am currently hate-reading Nexus. If any of you still needed evidence that he's a total hack, you have it right there. Mf claims to write a book about information and does it so poorly it's kind of depressing to see how acclaimed the book is. He's kicking dead orcas alongside the whales

Most of the messages panning this book and its author are so stupid that I'm now interested in reading it. Anything that upsets morons is worth a look.

I skimmed trough it when i found it in a book sharing place. Really its nothing special when you know that its basically transhumanist propaganda so to speak. There is nothing particular novel or groundbreaking about the book or the author other than it being a mind control tool straight from the elites, it is also obvious when you read between the lines. That being said knowitall harari being part of the three stoogies (schwabellklaus and ball gaytes being the others), he knows a lot more than he says and what he says has an agenda clearly, but he is also right in many things he said and wrote that people would never acknoweldge. I recall in the book he mentioned an quote from a british officer calling commoners scum of the earth, basically implying only royals should have property and rights, after the whole covid soykafshow im inclined to agree on most of what he says, knowing its all self affirming rethoric. >>10654 I dont think he tries, he is so high up in the foodchain, id bet he deliberitely halfasses his own work on purpose just to muddy the water and show how much he can get away with. This is just conjecture, but im sure people like him put in conflicting and false statements on purpose only to confuse and upset people, i just dont see what else such a person would want to achive. Also i laugh at suckers who gave their money to those people and wasted their time reading their propaganda, i hope they end up being his cyborg bitch sex slaves, keept alive to only to satisfy their deprived and sick pleasures.

>I haven't read the book, but I don't like it. >I skimmed through it once. Let me give you my detailed review. >Here, let me parrot some more quotations from the anti-Sapiens talking-points memo. This book *has* to be worth reading if it's getting this much concentrated rhetoric focused against it. I think this thread might just boost sales.

>>9952 I read it before I knew who the author and his friends are. I don't remember anything particularly good or bad about it. >>10013 >Can somebody tell me what is special about this book? The author is an advisor to a group of billionaires who think that the future of humanity needs to be guided by a council of enlightened elites and society needs to be forcibly restructured in various ways. That is the nicest most neutral way I can phrase it.

>>10668 >The author is an advisor to a group of billionaires who think that the future of humanity needs to be guided by a council of enlightened elites and society needs to be forcibly restructured in various ways. That sounds like bullshit or at best a huge distortion. No specifics, just vague mention of some unnamed "group" and unnamed "forcible restructuring". Typical rhetorical tactics when trying to spread bullshit. Do you have some (real) evidence for this?

>>10013 This is the most popular pop science book at the present time