Sapiens
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On perspective.
If we didn’t believe that the passage of time allows us to make a better world, then why would we try?
Book of Shem, Christianity, climate change, climate destabilization, club-winged manakins, cycles of time, cyclical time, David Kishik, death, direction of time, entropy, ents, evolution, evolutionary pressure, extinction, fall of man, global warming, good stewards of the Earth, hebrew, Hinduism, human evolution, improvement, Judaism, male nipples, manakins, mythology, optimism, originalism, perspective, progress, religion, Sapiens, the myth of progress, time, time’s arrow, tree communication, tree people, treents, trees, why do men have nipples, why does time move forward, Yuval Noah Harari
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On apocalypse-preppers, technology, and oppression.
The plow helped wreck women’s lives … with modern technologies only *slowly* fixing world. Let’s hope we never slide back to plows.
A Brief History of Humankind, agriculture, apocalypse, CUMA Survival School, farming, feminism, Gabriel Tallent, Harari, history, history of technology, How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, hunter-gatherers, inequality, Lewis Dartnell, My Absolute Darling, Nicky Woolf, plough, preppers, Preppers and Survivalists Expo, primates, Sapiens, sexual dimorphism, status of women in agricultural societies, survivalist dating, survivalists, The Knowledge, the plow, the plow and feminism, vegan, war, Yuval Noah Harari
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On crashing waves of violence and Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘The Wake.’
People are raving about the new film “Racing Extinction.” What might impending extinction feel like for those last few survivors?
ancient humans, Beowulf, CK Scott Moncrieff, distribution of wealth, economics, extinction, Homo sapiens, human evolution, inequality, land holdings, land rights, Marcel Proust, mass extinction, Neanderthals, Norman Invasion, Old English, Paul Kingsnorth, Sapiens, Seamus Heaney, Stonehenge, The Wake, Translation, wealth, Yuval Noah Harari
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On the historical interpretations deathmatch: Sid Meier’s ‘Civilization 2’ versus Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Sapiens.’
How do you pick the all-time list of video games? And what does the list tell us about humanity?
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