Prozac and Nietzsche in Harari’s "Sapiens:" Evolutionary psychology against the revolution

How Harari makes reductive and mutually incompatible counterrevolutionary arguments.

[Section of lithograph by April Burke]

Part 1.5 in my critique of Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. See the full series to date.

In his major 2015 bestseller Sapiens [2011 original], historian Yuval Noah Harari draws upon a range of disciplines and theories, including mythology and “memetics,” but the most important field for Harari is certa…