[Book review] Sapiens: A brief history of mankind
Genre: Non-Fiction, Evolutionary History
Content: 4/4
Writing: 3/4
X factor: 2/2
Total: 9/10
Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.
Sapiens
I am always a big fan of evolutionary history/biology genre as it never ceases to excite or run out of questions. This is one of the few books in the genre which have blown my mind away so much so that I had to take a few days off to reset. It was difficult to come to terms with the offbeat yet well researched scientific concepts this work explores which are quite freakishly true. The clarity with which humankind has been explored and laid down thread bare will have a cult following in future. I am told this book is partly inspired from Jared Diamond’ s Guns, germs and steel which I can’t wait to get my hands on.
This book, if you read, is going to be a serious threat to the ignorance you have of your ignorance, and also to the close-mindedness which have been hounding the progress of man for centuries. I am glad that the author lived in our times because, if he had published this book in the dark ages he would have been impaled by now and the world would have been intellectually poorer.
Yuval Noah Harari is one among those millions, born once in a century who with their sheer reasoning catalyses the average boxed thinking of ordinary people like us to explore unknown realms of divergent thought that- in the process- he manages to raise the average intelligence of the world. I can only find handful of people in the history of mankind who can claim to accomplish that and I tried really hard.
I don’t want to elaborate on the gist of the book as I fear it can take away the neuronic high a reader feels when the truth of knowledge dawns upon him/her.
There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights except in our collective imagination. Sapiens
Best read to to get a glimpse of what, how and why we all are the way we all are.
Originally published at http://stormsinmyteablog.wordpress.com on June 17, 2020.
