We tried to civilize ourselves with technology. But the banality of comfort and the sterility of enlightenment did not calm the primal chaos within, it only made it restless, till it commandeered our gadgets and digitally reprimitivized us with culture war tribalism and trolling.
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I haven't, unfortunately. My queue of must-read books is already longer than any human lifespan could accommodate. I am familiar with many of Yuval's ideas, however.
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Top few of your queue please, or better yet, top few of those you have read and agree they were must-read.
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Steve Stewart-Williams - The Ape that Understood the Universe David Deutsch - Beginning of Infinity Sebastian Junger - Tribe Sperber & Mercier - Enigma of Reason Richard Wiseman - 59 Seconds David Eagleman - Incognito James C. Scott - Seeing like a State
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