21 Lessons, does not disappoint
the following Harari has gained from his previous works. Harari surveys
our current global political situation and does something rather
interesting; from a geopolitical perspective, he scales it right back
down to the body. He places focus on the individual body and reminds us
we are more than our pigment, flesh, or clothing but we are a biological
machine of neuro-chemical-hormone interactions. Simply put, one of the
things I find that Harari wants to talk about is emotion and affect.
More absurd political events, more
breath-taking technologies, and more devastating climatic events are
inevitable in the coming decades. Harari leads us through his chapters
at a breathless pace, offering topic after topic but coming back to the
same point: if we don’t take the time to care for our bodies, our minds,
our souls, we will fall victim to the insidious mechanisms of power. We
cannot care for our families, we cannot write our books or work our
hours, and we cannot solve the problems of tomorrow if we do not scale
our priorities back to the layers beneath our skin.
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