I have a more nuanced take on Harari after having suffered through hours’ worth of footage from which his more notorious quotes have been extracted. As I say in that piece:
“I’m not saying Harari is a good guy. I’m saying he *thinks* he is a good guy. And that makes him even more dangerous, especially when he is influencing genuine villains like Doctor Doom-meets-Lex Luthor Klaus Schwab, who takes his admonitions as a how-to book on achieving global technocratic tyranny.”
No one ever thinks they are a bad guy, whether it is drug dealer or mob boss or dictator or even Bill Gates. They all will lie to themselves and rationalize their evil away.
Wait till you read the third part of this series (unlocks on Wednesday):
“Part 3: Yuval Noah Harari: Not the Man We Think He Is?” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-philanthropath-dreams-3fd)
I have a more nuanced take on Harari after having suffered through hours’ worth of footage from which his more notorious quotes have been extracted. As I say in that piece:
“I’m not saying Harari is a good guy. I’m saying he *thinks* he is a good guy. And that makes him even more dangerous, especially when he is influencing genuine villains like Doctor Doom-meets-Lex Luthor Klaus Schwab, who takes his admonitions as a how-to book on achieving global technocratic tyranny.”
Never trust a historian who thinks he’s a biologist.
😆 You would know, being a biologist!
No one ever thinks they are a bad guy, whether it is drug dealer or mob boss or dictator or even Bill Gates. They all will lie to themselves and rationalize their evil away.
Of course not. They think they are saving humanity. unfortunately, that’s the first baseline requirement to being a genocidal lunatic. 
Very nicely put, love your Substack BTW!
Aww, thank you, Becka!
You're welcome!