That this man gets taken seriously, given major "left" media platforms to speak on, gets touted as a fave by the likes of Obama, while his ideas are, at their heart, no less grotesque than Curtis Yarvin's is wild.
It is wild!! Harari and Yarvin are like two sides of the same coin. They serve the same people, finding friends among tech billionaires, worshipping and/or defending the most powerful and brutal regimes in history, reducing social and economic problems to genes and culture…and neither can get over the French Revolution!
But while one outright identifies as a Monarchist, the other pretends like his ideas already represent scholarly consensus and regularly gets mainstream platforms. It truly is WILD.
I so appreciate you, JD, and the fact that you’re reading back through and sharing these essays!
I so appreciate the time and effort you've put in to thoroughly explain the MANY flaws, ommissions, and inconsistencies in his views. A friend linked a video of him being interviewed on MSNBC about his latest book recently and I couldn't even make it half way through before I was to the point of figuratively yelling at the TV and turning the video off. The more I've learned about him by reading your essays, the more outrageous (though unsurprising) it is he's been given such a megaphone.
Ugh, I know! I watched one of him talking recently with Sam Harris and could only get about halfway through it. Harris kept bringing up Trump and Musk, and in response Harari repeatedly brought up Marxism (the strawman version he presents in Sapiens). And he admitted there that as an historian he is “a conservative” and akin to Edmund Burke (one of history’s greatest sycophants!). I’m very far from having seen all his interviews, but I’ve seen many and never heard him even come close to admitting that. Only took him 10 years! But watching him spew his BS in interviews is nauseating.
Ugh Sam Harris. I roll my eyes and grumble at him and Richard Dawkins for the same reasons I groan and cringe at Harari and Yarvin. Lapdogs of the rich and powerful, the lot of 'em.
Harari made a statement on MSNBC... I should try to find the video again... where he made a statement to the effect of "and that's how you get anarchy, and nobody wants that, obviously!" And I'm like, "Sir, first of all, you have no idea what anarchy is, and when you frame it like that people won't want it, but if you talk about it honestly, most people actually DO want that, so STFU!"
That this man gets taken seriously, given major "left" media platforms to speak on, gets touted as a fave by the likes of Obama, while his ideas are, at their heart, no less grotesque than Curtis Yarvin's is wild.
It is wild!! Harari and Yarvin are like two sides of the same coin. They serve the same people, finding friends among tech billionaires, worshipping and/or defending the most powerful and brutal regimes in history, reducing social and economic problems to genes and culture…and neither can get over the French Revolution!
But while one outright identifies as a Monarchist, the other pretends like his ideas already represent scholarly consensus and regularly gets mainstream platforms. It truly is WILD.
I so appreciate you, JD, and the fact that you’re reading back through and sharing these essays!
I so appreciate the time and effort you've put in to thoroughly explain the MANY flaws, ommissions, and inconsistencies in his views. A friend linked a video of him being interviewed on MSNBC about his latest book recently and I couldn't even make it half way through before I was to the point of figuratively yelling at the TV and turning the video off. The more I've learned about him by reading your essays, the more outrageous (though unsurprising) it is he's been given such a megaphone.
Ugh, I know! I watched one of him talking recently with Sam Harris and could only get about halfway through it. Harris kept bringing up Trump and Musk, and in response Harari repeatedly brought up Marxism (the strawman version he presents in Sapiens). And he admitted there that as an historian he is “a conservative” and akin to Edmund Burke (one of history’s greatest sycophants!). I’m very far from having seen all his interviews, but I’ve seen many and never heard him even come close to admitting that. Only took him 10 years! But watching him spew his BS in interviews is nauseating.
Ugh Sam Harris. I roll my eyes and grumble at him and Richard Dawkins for the same reasons I groan and cringe at Harari and Yarvin. Lapdogs of the rich and powerful, the lot of 'em.
Harari made a statement on MSNBC... I should try to find the video again... where he made a statement to the effect of "and that's how you get anarchy, and nobody wants that, obviously!" And I'm like, "Sir, first of all, you have no idea what anarchy is, and when you frame it like that people won't want it, but if you talk about it honestly, most people actually DO want that, so STFU!"
😂 completely agree!!! And he'll roll out so many lies and misconceptions so fast it's hard to know where to start.