Finally read the New Yorker profile of Noah Harari and was reminded that what bothered me most about Sapiens was not the inaccuracies but the complete lack of reflection on selling an idea -- the power of narratives -- using... a powerful narrativehttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/yuval-noah-harari-gives-the-really-big-picture …
After reading Sapiens, I read a scathing review by a real paleoanthropologist, and it totally destroyed my impression of Sapiens and what I'd taken away from it.
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And my daughter read this New Yorker profile, and it led us all to kind of dislike Harari.
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That Pinker quote... "Contemplating the scale of Harari’s operation, he said, without judgment, “I don’t know of any other academic or public intellectual who’s taken that route.”"
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