Sender Spike
1 min readMar 3, 2023

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Just off the top of my head and IIRC -- it was some time ago when I read it and I won't sift through that rubbish again only to defend my point: in Sapiens, he, without irony, assigns prehistoric people into contemporary groups such as developers, entrepreneurs, etc.; in a lengthy portion of the book he also defends advertisement on the basis of similarly construed analogies; he dates scientific revolution to ca. 1500 CE completely ignoring e.g. Greeks; I also vaguely remember that there were some invalid / conveniently left out facts about the history of agricultural revolution, eneolit, and bronze age (which, again, was also written with a hefty dose of his personal opinions and defense of liberal capitalism). And so on and so forth (but just for the record, I didn’t finish that book).

Well, if that's not neoliberal propaganda, I don't know what is. It’s also not a coincidence that the book was promoted and lauded especially by neoliberal entrepreneurs and politicians.

As I said, it's not that I only disagree with his conclusions, Sapiens was full of factual bullshit. An utter waste of paper and time. Harari simply tries hard to look edgy but he’s a fraud. Just take any serious publication (and it does not have to be scholarly paper, thought that's preferable -- history and archeology are not that arcane as physics or chemistry) and you will understand what I'm talking about.

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