Does the "mythical glue” hold?

Trying to make sense of Harari’s concept of imagined order.

[Section of a lithograph by April Burke]

Part 1.6 in my critique of Harari’s 2015 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, a book which has sold over 21 million copies and been endorsed by the likes of Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates.

See the full series of my critical reading to date.

In my previous two essays, I’ve critiqued Harari’s reductionist, g…