3.75 stars

Yuval Noah harari watching news: what a great time we live in. Only 172000 people are dying in wars. Child mortality has reduced to 33%. Global warming? Who cares. Science will a find a way to overcome it.

Yuval noah harari sitting with a homeless person: You won't die of hunger. Nobody dies of hunger these days. Malnutrition is a completely different thing.

I have yet to meet a more optimistic person than Yuval Noah Harari. Haha

I know whatever he has written is statistically and scientifically accurate, but I won't go as far to say that current era is better for humans and the world.
Yes, child mortality rate has decreased. Wars, famine and plagues aren't killing as many poeple as they used to and technological development has improved our life style, at least relatively, but at what cost? Famine has been replaced by overeating and in some parts of the world people are dying from malnutrition, if not from starvation. Progress is a double edged sword. We have created myriad of new problems that our ancestors didn't not have to deal with in the name progress and evolution.

I love this book but I also I dont agree with everything this book has to offer.

Let me be clear, I don't mind an atheist point of view, but what bothered me a little in this book was that yuval didn't mention Judaism as much as he mentioned Islam and Christianity, which is okay. It is just something that I have noticed in most of Yuval's work.

Anyway, the topic was intriguing. Writing was simple enough to understand, which I think is one of the reasons why this book is so popular. Some concepts in this book were extremely compelling and mind-boggling. I was really really fascinated by the idea of collective belief in man made fiction, and our different attitude towards a racist and an affluent person.

This book has really changed my perspective and has increased my existitenal angst.
I know I am gonna keep thinking about these concepts for days at night in my bed.

Yeah so thanks for that Mr. Yuval :p