Harari is simply asserting that Whig History is tire and is powered by Nihilism, without trying to make it plausible that this could be the case. This appeals to nihilists and Whigs, which more or less corresponds to appealing to complacency with the appearance of power.https://twitter.com/jim_rutt/status/1211299043713933312 …
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It is a disaster that our religions obfuscated God with mythology. The specification of the superorganism follows from game theory, cybernetics and our ecology. It is the platonic form of an enduring civilization.
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I'm not much on Platonic Forms arguments for God. Strikes me as no better than the Ontological Argument. Why is a God needed for an enduring civilization? It's a challenge but no obvious reason that it is impossible at least if we define enduring reasonably, say 500 years.
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Agree, but you said nihilism happens when proving that God does not exist, ergo it's lack of this understanding.
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Nihilism is a state of suffering, caused by an existential prior, and a defect of the rationality that lets us not account for this prior.
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