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Book:
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
For example, there is the communist narrative, the capitalist narrative, and the post-truth narrative. These narratives guide how we understand our world on an intellectual level, and have influenced world history. Another level of narratives is our own personal narratives. How we understand ourselves is through constructed stories of our minds. Though religion & philosophy can fill the gaps we do not construct ourselves, stories provide us with the thoughts that pass through our consciousness and give character to our understanding of being.
Generally speaking, I enjoyed the larger picture of this book. The breadth and depth of humanity's questions were so relevant to this day and age; and was exactly was what I was looking for when trying to catch up with not reading the news for two years. However while reading the book, I consistently felt my globally educated and liberal privilege on not having to disagree with Harrari. The realities I confront with now, being in a domestic and inbound culture with very little interest in its foreign neighbors, is testing my ability to deal with day-to-day basis interactions to the very psychological traps Harrari raises. Though the point of the book is not to provide solutions and to raise questions, I wasn't sure how recounting the stories could reach someone who has not lived in stories other than their own.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
- Book bought during PTO holiday in hopes of getting back in touch with outside world
- Holiday was more revealing about time, life, other people
- Endless questions were raised; the context it is raised in felt like a privileged academic context.
For example, there is the communist narrative, the capitalist narrative, and the post-truth narrative. These narratives guide how we understand our world on an intellectual level, and have influenced world history. Another level of narratives is our own personal narratives. How we understand ourselves is through constructed stories of our minds. Though religion & philosophy can fill the gaps we do not construct ourselves, stories provide us with the thoughts that pass through our consciousness and give character to our understanding of being.
Generally speaking, I enjoyed the larger picture of this book. The breadth and depth of humanity's questions were so relevant to this day and age; and was exactly was what I was looking for when trying to catch up with not reading the news for two years. However while reading the book, I consistently felt my globally educated and liberal privilege on not having to disagree with Harrari. The realities I confront with now, being in a domestic and inbound culture with very little interest in its foreign neighbors, is testing my ability to deal with day-to-day basis interactions to the very psychological traps Harrari raises. Though the point of the book is not to provide solutions and to raise questions, I wasn't sure how recounting the stories could reach someone who has not lived in stories other than their own.
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