Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition] A Brief History of Humankind

I've been recommending a lot lately you've all know a Harari's books Sapiens and and homodeous partly because he sees the world through the lens of fiction and he uses that language that we live so much in the world of fiction.

Sapiens, that's one of those books that I read a couple times because it just, I got so much insight from it.

It reminded me of this book called Sapiens by oh my god, Yuval Noah Harari.

He talks about how the agricultural revolution more so resulted in the domestication of man rather than us domesticating plants like wheat and shit.

And you may know him as the author of some hugely best-selling books, Sapiens, A Brief History of Mankind, Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century,

Yuval Noah Horari is a fascinating guy. He was sapiens, the book.

If a forager band split once every 40 years and its splinter group migrated to a new territory, 60 miles to the east, the distance from East Africa to China would have been covered in about 10,000 years.

Vel Noharari, a new writer that's out that wrote Sapiens. I read Sapiens. It took me a while because that book is huge. What was crazy to me about Sapiens we'll geek out with each other for a second. Sapiens what was crazy was when they talked about the humans that would survive, they're the first ones that could stand because they could see because they were on all fours.

the Velno Harari a new writer that's out that wrote Sapiens I read Sapiens it took me a while because that book is huge

what was crazy to me about Sapien was when they talked about the humans that would survive though the first ones that could stand because they could see because they were on all fours and that's we were on all fours but the ones that really thrived are the ones that can stand on two because they lifted higher and had higher vision farther on the horizon crazy and it's why we have it's why when you hear something rustling the woods if you better assume it's a lion and not the wind we still have those our brain our brain goes to war a lion in Arkansas

But I will say, and this is an easy one to recommend, but the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari was a seminal for so many people.

It was between Homo Deus and Sapiens. I was like the meat in the sandwich there that was kind of a cool thing as an author as they're real famous books and It turns out if you can increase the electrical power in your brain you can increase your IQ.

Real quick, I'm sure we've mentioned this book on the podcast before but Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari is a fantastic read and deals with a lot of this stuff in depth in a very, I would say understandable and intelligent and pretty poetic way.

Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned sapiens Harari's doing some great work Not everybody loves him but I think I read every book I would just say a very good science communicator

Remember that book, Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari?

I have heard you talk about it.

I think Noel's read parts of it, too. I've not read it, but it sounds amazing every time we talk about it.

It's a great think piece book.

But Harari talks about this as well, this plant-human relationship. And he specifically says the agricultural revolution was history's biggest fraud. And that wheat and rice and potatoes domesticated Homo sapiens rather than the other way around.

I did read something really, really spooky recently from Yuval Noah Harari, who you guys know is is a wonderful writer for a wonderful writer of several books like Sapiens and a couple other great things.

Oh, and by the way, uh off air aside. Thanks to uh, the good mr Matt frederick, uh, we've confirmed the poem I was alluding to like like someone with brain addles brain fever is a real thing. It's called Grass it's by a guy named carl sandburg. It's excellent. It's short Read it and then just have it locked and loaded be ready to drop it

also shout out to the book sapiens by uh, Noah, yuval harari excellent read worth your time controversial, but would love to hear what you think

I did read something really, really spooky recently from Yuval Noah Harari, who you guys know is is a wonderful writer for a wonderful writer of several books like Sapiens and a couple other great things.

Oh, and by the way, uh off air aside. Thanks to uh, the good mr Matt frederick, uh, we've confirmed the poem I was alluding to... It's called Sapiens by uh, Noah, Yuval Harari. Excellent read, worth your time, controversial, but would love to hear what you think.

Douglas Murray's attack on "Sapiens" author Yuval Noah Harari ignoring the importance of a classical education curriculum

Douglas Murray if you would teach a child, uh the bible, Plato, Shakespeare

I think I can say with 100% certainty, all of that will still be useful in 20 years time, and it'll be useful in 50 years time, and a hundred years time, and more is the pity that so many modern education systems don't give you any sight of yes because later, well because then you don't know what you're grounded in and the problem is then you don't know the waters you're swimming in, so many of us those kids who are out there chanting for things they have no idea what they're saying, they're not grounded to anything related to reality of media that lies to them, education system that lies to them and everything else, but we better start fixing it.

in his book he talks about that the age of free will is over and he says that's right now that you don't really make the decisions that you think you make because you're so influenced by what you see

I think he's a historian by discipline.

Yeah, I don't know what he is but I may be wrong but you know his big big book is Sapiens but then he's written other things and he was on Steve Levitt's podcast People I Mostly Admire and he said one small thing that I found so interesting and insightful he was talking about this isn't quite hypocrisy but I filed it under that. He was talking about how quick we are to punish public people and he was talking about politicians in this case.

New from world-renowned historian Yvall Noah Harari, author of the number one international bestseller sapiens comes the second volume in his middle grade series unstoppable us available now wherever books are sold.

This is probably a conversation we should be having with like you've all know a harrari who wrote sapiens or something like that.

this is probably a conversation we should be having with like you've all know a harrari who wrote sapiens or something like that.

This is probably a conversation we should be having with like you've all know a harrari who wrote sapiens or something like that.

We had Rutger Breggman on some of the social science that says how bad humans are and we're gonna debunk some of that because things are not as bad as they might seem in human nature is actually much better and more positive than we thought according to well actual science.

In Professor Harari's new book I think he has become more optimistic he talks about the same thing I talk about that maybe people have to go back on their human instincts, their compassion, things that machines can't do right because we're talking about people who can't do routine jobs better than a machine.

And now? No. I was just reading that shit. And nothing's going on that day. She just comes in, grabs the book, and fucking throws it across the room, starts screaming.