‘It is much easier to live with the fantasy because fantasy gives meaning to the suffering.’
-Yuval Noah Harari
History, Future, and Politics, subjects, as intriguing and fascinating as they are, never encroached my mind to an extent that I’d actually start reading thick 500-paged books about them. This book has unquestionably done so!🗿
HOMO DEUS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOMORROW⚓️
[Thought — Provoking]💭
This isn’t just a book you’d read to pass time or something you’d read in a waiting room till you’re called in. It’s a book you’d want to (rather HAVE TO) invest your time and thought in. The book is a thought-provoking narrative that begins with a brief on the past (Homo-Sapiens has covered the elaborate version) and walks with us and our questions to paint a picture of the future we can expect.➿
The author speaks of History, Economics, Human experiences, Feeling, Religions, Communities, god, and every such topic that has been a center of debates with such conviction and consciousness, it’s reassuring!🌀
Speaking of evolution as a ceaseless phenomenon, the author presents the consequence of the evolutionary pace that we’re following today in the 21st century- with technology, data, heretics, digitization, globalization, etc.🌐
An abundance of notions and conceptions have gushed through my mind and left my brain churning. 🧠
The author, through this book encourages us, whatever our beliefs, to question the basic narratives of our world, to connect the past developments with present concerns, and not to be afraid of controversial issues. 🔒
The clarity with which the author anticipates where we are headed in the future is so powerful, it leaves us pondering.💯
[A little part of one of my favorites from the book] ✨
We live in an interwoven web of meanings. Factually assumed realities are just an acceptance by a large number of numbers, mutually.
Their values might evaporate once people stop believing in them — money, laws, gods, governments, and even entire empires!
Most people are also happy to acknowledge that Ancient Greek gods, evil empires and the values of alien cultures exist only in the imagination. Yet we don’t want to accept that our God, our nation, or our values are mere fictions, because these are the things that give meaning to our lives.
‘We want to believe that our lives have some objective meaning and that our sacrifices matter to something beyond the stories in our head.’
Meaning is created when people weave together a common network of stories. Why does a particular action — getting married, fasting, voting, etc. seem meaningful to me?
People constantly reinforce each other’s beliefs in a self-perpetuating loop.
Each round of mutual confirmation tightens the [web of the meaning] further until you have little choice but to believe what everyone else believes!
[web of laws, forces, entities and places that exist purely in imagination. The web allows human alone to organise crusades, socialist revolutions and human rights movements. ]
-Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow 💫
