What do you think of Yuval Harari s A Brief History of Mankind? What can I learn from reading it?

Some of the ideas in the book do not agree with them, and the atheistic views triggered by the facts are only the author's personal opinions.

It is a book that is both popular and in-depth, understanding our origins and thinking about the future. After reading it, you will find that from a macro point of view, human beings are both small and great.

This is a "new book" of world history, the core content of this book is "cognitive revolution", through the "cognitive revolution", to see the history of human growth, reading this book, we can continue to refresh some cognition.

The success of the evolution of a species depends on the number of DNA copies of the species in the world. If there is no longer a copy of the DNA of a species in the world, it means that the species is extinct.

It's like a company that has no money and goes out of business.

Similarly, companies like Panda are on the brink of bankruptcy. And giant corporations like humans are at the top of the monopoly food chain.

In 1776 B.C., the king of the Babylonian Empire promulgated the Code of Hammurabi, which defined the class structure of people, and the code defined punishment according to the class system, such as the punishment of a superior person who killed the daughter of another superior person, and faced the punishment of killing his own daughter. (homomorphic revenge).

In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was born in the United States, and the core idea was that "all men are equal", such as the well-known passage "All men are created equal, and their Creator has endowed them with certain inalienable rights, which include the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." "It's the equivalent of erasing class differences.

The author makes an interesting point: the idea of class is actually the subjective consciousness of human beings, which can also be called "an order constructed by imagination." "We believe in some kind of order, not because it is an objective fact, but because we believe that it can make a stable society.

And the Code of Hammurabi also has something to say: I know that the so-called superior people, commoners and slaves are not different in nature, but if we follow the class principle, we can also create a stable and prosperous society.

The argument presented in the book is further extended to say that "the order of imagination shapes our desires", and people's pursuits are often influenced by the order of imagination, such as today's romantic consumerism.

The two hit it off, which led to the boom of tourism and the concept of romantic consumerism.

This concept is just like the long-cherished wish of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs was to build themselves a coveted ornate mausoleum, and modern people all their lives want to build some kind of pyramids, but these pyramids will have different names, shapes and scales in different cultures, as for what kind of shape and scale, it is up to the times to decide.

A Brief History of Mankind: From Animals to God is a blockbuster work by an emerging Israeli historian. From one hundred thousand.

The history of human development from the beginning of the 21st century with signs of life to the interweaving of capital and science and technology in the 21st century. 100,000 years ago, there were at least six human races on Earth, why are we left today? We were once a humble race in the corners of Africa, and our influence on the planet's ecology was not much different from that of fireflies, orangutans or jellyfish.

Why did we get to the top of the biological chain and eventually become the masters of the planet?

From the cognitive revolution, the agricultural revolution to the scientific revolution, do we really know ourselves? Are we happier? Do we know where money and religion come from and why they come about?

Why did the empires created by mankind decline and rise one after another? Why does almost every society on the planet have the idea of male superiority and inferiority? Why is monotheism the most widely accepted religion?

How did science and capitalism become the most important creeds of modern society? Clarify the major contexts that affect human development, and dig out the root causes of human culture, religion, law, state, credit, etc. This is a grand brief history of mankind, which is more subtle and small, and allows mankind to re-examine itself.

It was around the 32nd-31st century BC that there were records of the Mesopotamian kushim.

The Israeli historian Yuval Nova Harari found another ancient recorded name in A Brief History of Mankind – Kushim. Harari believes that the Kushim is dated several decades before the clay tablets of the slave master Gal-Sal and his two slaves, En-Pap X and Sukkalgir.

The object that bears the name of Kushim is a 5,000-year-old clay tablet, and Kushim is also a Sumerian.

The book says: Every point in history is like a crossroads. Although there is only one street left from the past to the present, there are countless forks in the road to the future.

Some of these roads are wider and flatter, and the road signs are more clear, so they are also more likely choices. Sometimes, however, history has chosen paths that are completely unexpected. The people who really knew the situation best at that time (that is, the people who lived at that time) were the people who could not see the direction of history the most.

That's the way the so-called authorities are obsessed. For the entire history of Homo sapiens, there has been a general trend of development and evolution. Gender differences, caste systems, and skin color differences, give rise to various class systems.

As an insider, I don't care what other people think of me, I am measured from that perspective. I am a small drop of water in the long river of history, but I must reflect my own unique light. I have my own independent choices, and every decision I make is based on my own independent thinking.

It doesn't matter if my final approach is to be more popular or maverick. Life is a moment, but I live my life. I can't stop the torrent of history, but I also don't want to go with the flow without thinking about it.

I haven't read a book for a long time, and I feel more and more that my ideas are shallow, my words are tasteless, I don't have a story, and I can't tell a story. But at the tail end of 2016, I came across an interesting story about you, me, and I going from monkey to God. This story is called "A Brief History of Mankind".

Don't be intimidated by the title, this is a very good storytelling book, the new work of Yuval Harari, a young Israeli scholar born in the 70s, vividly tells the changes from ancient humans to modern civilization in 70,000 years in 400 pages. After its publication in 2014, it quickly became popular all over the world, was translated into nearly 30 languages, and occupied the bestseller lists in many countries for a long time. I almost never read history books, and I picked up the book "A Brief History of Mankind" from the bookshelf by chance, but I didn't expect to be caught all at once, and it took me two or three days to read it in one go.

In reading, I have been stirred by fresh ideas countless times, and I have countless ideas that have come to my heart, and I often feel empowered. As soon as I finished reading it, I wanted to write a book review, but I wrote and deleted it, and scrapped three manuscripts in a row. Ultimately, I must frankly admit my ignorance and lack of ability to appreciate the book as a whole.

In this "pseudo-book review", I just want to share with you the shock of the ideas in reading this "human story", record the fragmented thoughts and feelings, and hope to touch you as well. <>