What Yuval Noah Harari thinks about politics
Israeli historian and philosopher, born in 1976; author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Nexus; lecturer in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; co-founder of Sapienship in 2019.
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8 dated positions, 2017 to 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Yuval Noah Harari has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingPolitics often works like a scientific experiment run on millions of people with few ethical limits
Their wordsPolitics often works like a scientific experiment, conducted on millions of people with few ethical limitations.
↗Israelis and Palestinians are facing their moment of greatest danger since 1948 (The Guardian)theguardian.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsHumankind is losing faith in the liberal story that dominated global politics in recent decades, exactly when the merger of biotech and infotech confronts us with the biggest challenges humankind has ever encountered.
↗21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Vintage, 2019 edition; first published by Jonathan Cape, 2018)books.google.com All 26 from this book
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Their wordsAnd a lot of countries liberalized their economy, their society, their politics, over the last 50 years more because they were convinced of the efficiency argument than of the deep moral argument. And what happens if efficiency and morality suddenly split?
↗Mark Zuckerberg & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversationyoutube.com 6th of 9 in this recording
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsLiberalism’s great advantage over other ideologies is that it is flexible and undogmatic. It can sustain criticism better than any other social order.
↗Yuval Noah Harari: the myth of freedom (The Guardian)theguardian.com 1st of 5 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsBut once somebody (whether in San Francisco or Beijing or Moscow) gains the technological ability to manipulate the human heart—reliably, cheaply, and at scale—democratic politics will mutate into an emotional puppet show.
↗Why Technology Favors Tyranny (The Atlantic)theatlantic.com 6th of 11 in this piece
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Their wordsIn the 21st century, data will eclipse both land and machinery as the most important asset, so politics will be a struggle to control data’s flow.
↗Why Technology Favors Tyranny (The Atlantic)theatlantic.com 10th of 11 in this piece
- 18 months earlier
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Our readingWe have a global ecology and a global economy but national politics, and these do not work together
Their wordsIn essence, what you can say is that we now have global ecology, we have a global economy but we have national politics, and this doesn't work together.
↗Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari (TED Dialogues)youtube.com 3rd of 12 in this recording
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Our readingNuclear weapons pushed humans to manage international politics in a way that reduced violence
Their wordsIn fact, nuclear weapons prompted humans all over the world to change the way that they manage international politics to reduce violence.
↗Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari (TED Dialogues)youtube.com 12th of 12 in this recording