Yuval Noah Harari's really awful history

Published 2024-07-26
As requested by many viewers, this video reviews the work of Yuval Noah Harari.

Harari is the most successful and controversial historian today.

Is he even an historian? Or a philosopher. futurist, student of existential risk, or adviser to the stars of "globalism"?

I offer my fair, balanced review of Harari's Sapiens and other books, Homo Deus and Lessons for the 21st Century.

You might be surprised at my verdict. Is his history really awful?

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All Comments (21)
  • He’s not successful ! He’s backed to the balls with WEF money
  • @vothila
    The fact that Harari is taken seriously as an intellectual really shows us how bad things are in our world currently!
  • @nk-gp1ml
    His ‘facts’ and analysis on the issue of Israel and the Palestinians are worse than awful exposing the true nature of this individual.
  • I think Harari's reductionism is not only false, but insidious. On a biochemical level, taking a hit of cocaine and receiving a love letter from my crush may be equivalent, but that doesn't mean the subjective experiences, their implications, etc. are the same and interchangeable in some way. Even on a fully materialistic view of the world, the latter event is much deeper and more significant, as it opens up my life to a new relationship, a future family and so on. The other is just sniffing a white powder, fleeting and self-destructive. These two "happinesses" are not the same except for some narrow measurement and this goes for the whole spectrum of human experience. That's why most people don't want to jump into a simulation or be "uploaded", no matter how pleasant, they don't want to be constrained to a cloud server and some corporate light show, when the Universe is so much bigger and richer.
  • @rogerzen8696
    The minute he talked about izreal using nuclear weapons, I lost all my respect for him. He's just a warmonger like the rest of the lot.
  • @BoqPrecision
    I dont think his rise to fame was "organic", hehe...
  • Harari is obviously a lightweight. The West does not define the world. He seems oblivious to that.
  • @buglepong
    when tech/finance bros try to do philosophy
  • @one4320
    I read Sapiens many years ago. I'm an average person and it was easy even for me to detect a lot of ideological bias in his so called 'history' - ie it contains a lot of cultural propaganda.
  • The first time I encountered his book: “A lavishly promoted Israeli seeking to define humankind. Pass.” 😂 It doesn’t surprise me to hear that he defines us as animals.
  • @Emanon...
    Harari is a hack. And for the life of me, I don't know why they assume he has anything relevant to contribute in fields vastly outside his expertise. You want to see his pure hypocrisy: Ask him about the history of the Hebrew people and the history of Israel.
  • @a_lucientes
    What I find so disturbing in his rhetoric is the idea that because we are facing the loss of abt half the jobs that remain that those people will automatically be useless. He cannot imagine an actual post scarcity society. Yet he supposed to be a prophet like futurist over that the WEF (a nickname he was given by Schwab). Of course, he also cannot imagine moving beyond capitalism. That most people could lives of leisure (or dedicated to whatever discipline they choose) if the wealth the robot society produces is shared just a bit equitably.
  • He’s very cordially explaining that Yarari is an elite plant with rubbish history.
  • Harari is on camera saying that free will is over .He can go to hell.