21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Book Review
21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Book Review
Tim O’Connor – Center for the Preservation of Humanity – 9/17/2022
Summary
Yuval Noah Harari is a deeply flawed human being. He has an agenda which he promotes throughout all of his writings and speeches and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is not different. His agenda is a global government featuring technocracy, totalitarianism, and transhumanism. He seems to want humanity to arrive at the same conclusions that he has arrived at – everything is fiction, nothing is real, and technology will solve all of our problems. If the future actually plays out that way, Harari will have a lot more slaves to control than corpses to bury. Of course, I don’t see Harari’s plan going nearly as smoothly as he thinks it will – I think he will have not only billions of corpses, but millions of living, breathing dissenters and rebels against his one-world totalitarian government. At the end of the day, despite his claims to the contrary, Harari has created his own dangerous fiction based on the fact that he is a self-hating Jew who hates God, fears God’s judgment of him, and has created all of his fictions in order to justify his own evil. Harari is a sad man who uses pseudo-science, philosophical arguments, and authoritarianism to weave narratives that point his readers to the conclusion he wants them to come to. I write to get people to come to the conclusion that I want them to as well; however, the choice is yours to make. To me Harari’s future for humanity is bleak. That future features humanity becoming first useless, then a nuisance, then completely obsolete – at best we will be permitted to be slaves to the likes of Harari and the technologies he controls. At worst we will be starved to death or used as test subjects for new technologies which will only benefit Harari and the rest of the global elite.
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Yuval Noah Harari is a Jewish homosexual who is connected to Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum. Harari is a very intelligent individual; however, he has used every bit of his intelligence to further the destruction of the human race. Because he is Jewish and because he is homosexual I will probably get in trouble with the censorship police and they will tell everyone that I am anti-Semitic and homophobic. Let them call me those things even though they are not true. Harari is a globalist who promotes transhumanism. He is also the ‘brains’ behind the WEF. And for that, there is no excuse.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century was released to the public in 2018. The book is a 335-page promotion of the Great Reset and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In 2022, all people should be aware of these two ideas because that’s what Covid-19 and the roll out of the murder jabs and the tyrannical control associated with Covid-19 is – the psychological break necessary to usher in the Great Reset and the Fourth Industrial Revolution over humanity. Before all of the craziness started in early 2020, Harari had it all laid out.
The first section of the book covers technological aspects of the non-human future Harari is helping to enslave humanity in. “The revolutions in biotech and infotech will give us control of the world inside us and will enable us to engineer and manufacture life. We will learn how to design brains, extend lives, and kill thoughts at our discretion,” appears on page 7. What he describes is the end of humanity in order to give rise to something more than human – the transhuman. Those who do not become transhuman will be useless to the collectivized society.
As technology becomes more integrated within the world of work, people will be made obsolete. Flesh and blood human beings won’t have jobs. Harari makes several suggestions to avoid the severe backlash the newly tech-created useless class presents. Universal Basic Income is his master plan to pacify the human beings who pose an existential threat to globalism and the globalists promoting the murderous designs of globalism. On page 37 Harari wrote “Some might argue that humans could never become economically irrelevant, because even if they cannot compete with AI in the workplace, they will always be needed as consumers. However, it is far from certain that the future economy will need us even as consumers.” On page 44 he lays out the economic future of the vast majority of humanity, “If we manage to combine a universal economic safety net with strong communities and meaningful pursuits, losing our jobs to algorithms might actually turn out to be a blessing.” Who will decide how much economic support we will need – globalist’s like Harari. Who will determine what a meaningful pursuit is for us to pursue? Globalist’s like Harari will. What happens if someone rejects the community created by globalists? Harari doesn’t mention that because he leaves out the quiet parts – the people rejecting this globalist plot to enslave humanity will need to be removed from society through imprisonment or death.
This really ‘smart’ guy, Harari, has a very negative view of liberty as a result of technological ‘advancement.’ Page 57 reads, in part:
“As authority shifts from humans to algorithms, we may no longer view the world as the playground of autonomous individuals struggling to make the right choices. Instead, we might perceive the entire universe as a flow of data, see organisms as little more than biochemical algorithms, and believe that humanity’s cosmic vocation is to create an all-encompassing data-processing system – and then merge into it. Already today we are becoming tiny chips inside a giant data-processing system that nobody really understands. Every day I absorb countless data bits through emails, tweets, and articles, process the data, and transmit back new bits through more emails, tweets, and articles. I don’t really need to know where I fit into the great scheme of things, or how my bits of data connect with the bits produced by billions of other humans and computers. I don’t have time to find out, because I am too busy answering all these emails.”
Harari is very smug while he describes the destruction of humanity. Harari is allowed to tweet about the virtues of the Great Reset and the dehumanization of all of humanity in order to accommodate the Fourth Industrial Revolution, write emails planning and promoting the next steps of the Great Reset, and release articles demanding how humanity must collectively accept their own enslavement in order to facilitate his lifestyle. It is not surprising the most persistent and loudest voices warning people about these topics were banned from Twitter as well as all other social media websites. Without those bans, many more people would have been exposed to narratives diametrically opposed to the future Harari wants to usher us in. The quoted paragraph above is very disingenuous because it is self-serving to Harari’s ideas of humanity merging into the metaverse an the expense of any liberty any individual may wish to exercise.
To round out Harari’s analysis on the technological basis of the destruction of humanity he brings up equality. He states that inequalities are likely to be exacerbated between the haves and the have-nots regarding technological acquisition. His solution to the problem of rising inequality is making sure that we own the data about ourselves. Of course, the data is already owned by the government’s of the world, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other big-tech/big-data entities. To put that cat back into the bag would be a big fat no-go. There is a reason that all of these services were offered for free – we paid for them with our information. These entities have already created extensive profiles of every single user they have. So who owns the data is a discussion we should have all had 20 years ago. Harari suggesting that the time is now is not only a day late and a dollar short – it is another disingenuous argument which serves to really tell the reader that we are already ‘owned’ by a small technological elite who surveil us at will.
Politically, Harari points to challenges regarding the new concepts of community, civilization, nationalism, religion, and immigration all of us will be forced to accept and suffer under.
Within the chapter about community, Harari sees a need to connect to people in the real world. Harari spends the entire chapter on Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to turn us all into global citizens in the real world as well as the inline world. After all, what good would it do to folks like Zuckerberg and Harai if Facebook guidelines only applied to Facebook interactions? Why wouldn’t these types of technological elites want their version of speech codes enforced in the real world too?
Dealing with civilization, Harari writes on page 108, “And what makes up all these cells and bacteria? Indeed, what makes up the entire world? A thousand years ago every culture had its own story about the universe, and about the fundamental ingredients of the cosmic soup. Today, learned people throughout the world believe exactly the same things about matter, energy, time, and space.” Further down the same page, Harari wrote, “People still have different religions and national identities. But when it comes to the practical stuff – how to build a state, an economy, a hospital, a bomb – almost all of us belong to the same civilization.”
To Harari’s charge that we all belong to the same civilization – no, we certainly don’t. I don’t rape goats, for one. I don’t engage in beastiality. I have no use for human-created technologies which seek to supplant human supremacy on earth (or anywhere else). I don’t believe in the theories of evolution, man-made climate change, the origins of the dinosaurs, viruses, gender-fluidity, transhumanism, transexualism, nor fiat currency, Marxism, Malthusianism, Gaia theory, Hinduism, Buddhism, nor Islam. I believe that God made human beings, that homosexuality is a sin, and that freedom is given by the same God who abhors homosexuality and made human beings. I am a human supremacist.
After attempting to create the perfect global citizen to live in a global civilization through his bunk argument, Harari turned his attention to nationalism. He hates nationalism and wants to destroy it. He doesn;t have a problem with celebrating German food, or Africal tribal rites – he has a problem with the idea that there is not a global government over all of these sovereign states. The problems which can only be solved with a global government, according to Harari (and many of his peers), are nuclear proliferation and nuclear war, ecological issues (including climate change), technology being adapted to “a cornucopia of doomsday scenarios, ranging from digital dictatorships to the creation of a global useless class” (page 123). Then he ties all of them together and says the combination represents the greatest existential threat to humanity, ever. He missed the part where the same globalists worried about all of this have worked really hard to bring the world to the brink of nuclear war, allow harmful chemicals to be spread around the globe, made up the lie of man-made climate change, and push transhumanist technologies at all times.
In perhaps the most disingenuous chapter in the whole book, Harari attempts to show that there is no Christian agriculture or Moslem economics. Before I present the next quote, I will clue you into something you are most likely already fully aware of – Harari is a hard core Communist through and through. He is coming at this from the perspective that he is going to wage war on God and thinks he will win. On page 135 Harari wrote:
“Modern economic theories are so much more relevant than traditional dogmas that it has become common to interpret even ostensibly religious conflicts in economic terms, whereas nobody thinks of doing the reverse. For example, some argue that the Troubles in Northern Ireland between Catholics and Protestants were fueled largely by class conflict. Due to various historical accidents, in Northern Ireland the upper classes were mostly Protestant and the lower classes were mostly Catholic. Therefore what seems at first sight to have been a theological conflict about the nature of Christ was in fact a typical struggle between haves and have-nots. In contrast, very few people would claim that the conflicts between communist guerrillas and capitalist landowners in South America in the 1970’s were really just a cover for a far deeper disagreement about Christian theology.”
I’m one of the few, I guess. War is always driven by the Adversary’s desire to destroy human beings through getting humans worshiping anything but God the Creator or killing believers outright. The pinko’s down in South America in the 1970’s were absolutely under the Adversary’s lies because their unholy ideology demands that God doesn’t exist. This is the same reason that Harari is a devoted Communist – as a homosexual he knows he is living a life against God’s laws and wants to escape His judgment at all costs.
Harari goes on to project that religious sects may use technology to wage war against each other. Catholics and Protestants may use nuclear bombs to fight their differences out according to Harari. It’s odd that he never once mentions the nation of Iran posing an existential threat to Israel, the threat the nation of Pakistan poses to India, nor the threat of North Korea poses to the whole globe. Harari does go on to say on page 141:
“Unfortunately, all of this really makes traditional religions part of humanity’s problem, not part of the remedy. Religions still have a lot of political power, inasmuch as they can cement national identities and even ignite the Third World War. But when it comes to solving rather than stoking the global problems of the twenty-first century, they don’t seem to offer much. Though many traditional religions espouse universal values and claim cosmic validity, at present they are used mainly as the handmaid of modern nationalism, whether in North Korea, Russia, Iran, or Israel. They therefore make it even harder to transcend national differences and find a global solution to the threats of nuclear war, ecological collapse, and technological disruption.”
In Harari’s eyes it is religion which provides a roadblock to his global government’s establishment. In my eyes, the lack of faith in this world is the problem and global government is not only useless, but evil. It would seem we are diametrically opposed to one another – because we are. Harari wants everyone to believe that globalism based on secularism is the best way to go while forgetting that it was secularism with global intentions which murdered well over 200 million people in the 20th century.
Immigration is treated by Harari as a weapon. In order to weaponize immigration Harari forces readers to choose between one of three choices. Immigrants are allowed in, immigrants are allowed in but must accept the values of the host country (assimilate to an extent), and immigrants displaying proficient assimilation will result in citizenship are the choices coupled with whether or not the deal is working. After doing his best to confuse readers about immigration, he then claims that culturalism is the same as racism. He fails to recognize that, yes, there are some cultures which are superior to others. The culture of following God’s Laws, in the small pockets where that actually exists, is superior to all other cultures.
Terrorism should basically be ignored according to Harari (pages 173-174):
“We cannot prepare for every eventuality. Accordingly, while we must surely prevent nuclear terrorism, this cannot be the number one item on humanity’s agenda. And we certainly shouldn’t use the theoretical threat of nuclear terrorism as a justification for overreaction to run-of-the-mill terrorism. These are different problems that demand different solutions.”
Terrorism was never the number one item on humanity’s agenda. It was on the number one item on the globalist’s agenda for quite some time because of the amount of freedom they could strip from the citizens of, especially, the United States. Harari is also, disgustingly, using a term ‘run-of-the-mill terrorism’ to describe ‘normal’ terrorist attacks which have included the use of sarin nerve gas, burning churches full of congregants down and shooting those who flee, car bombings, mass-shootings, and raiding embassies. Harari, again, is a Communist through and through and doesn’t seem to mind that terrorists are responsible for all of these types of attacks. Likewise, Harari welcomes the massive erosion of freedom experienced in the United States because it allowed for a more globally-directed United States featuring far more enslaved citizens. It erased many freedoms – another major roadblock to the establishment of a global government.
Harari is smart, as I mentioned, but he is so full of himself that he thinks he is smarter than everyone else on the planet. He expresses this in his chapter regarding war. While Harari wants a global government featuring human enslavement and transhumanism above all else, on page 184 he wrote:
“Human stupidity is one of the most important forces in history, yet we often tend to discount it. Politicians, generals, and scholars treat the world as a great chess game, where every move follows careful rational calculation. This is correct up to a point. Few leaders in history have been mad in the narrow sense of the word, moving pawns and knights at random. Hideki Tojo, Saddam Hussein, and Kim Jong-Il had rational reasons for every move they played. The problem is that the world is far more complicated than a chessboard, and human rationality is not up to the task of really understanding it. For that reason even the rational leaders frequently end up doing very stupid things.”
For a smart guy, Harari is profoundly stupid. A global government would need to understand this really complicated world. The individual governments we have now do not understand everything that is going on with ever person legally (let alone illegal) within their borders. Even China is not able to do this right now. If we use Harari’s own argument here, the world would need to be made far more simple for there to be any type of globalized government. This is precisely why the WEF is busying itself with destroying food production, promoting wars, and creating man-made scarcity. With less people there are less pieces to need to move around on a chess board. With less people, it becomes easier to control the populations of the world. Targeting the necessities of life (everyone needs to eat real food – not insects) creates dependence upon, in Harari’s mind and the WEF’s grand vision, the global government to provide for that need. They aren’t concerned if that control comes at the price of 3-4 billion people or not. It is ‘rational’ if the goal is to control the people of earth; however, it is very, very stupid and will likely result in actions against the globalists which will be very unpleasant for them.
Seeing himself as one of Plato’s philosopher kings, Harari reminds readers that we are not the center of the world. While demanding every other person on earth humble themselves he condemns every group on earth by writing (page 187):
“They combine a willful ignorance of history with more than a hint of racism. None of the religions or nations of today existed when humans colonized the world, domesticated plants and animals, built the first cities, or invented writing and money. Morality, art, spirituality, and creativity are universal human abilities embedded in our DNA. Their genesis was in Stone Age Africa. It is therefore crass egotism to ascribe to them a more recent place and time, be it China in the age of the Yellow Emperor, Greece in the age of Plato, or Arabia in the age of Muhammad.”
The argument he is presenting here is every other group is wrong, but globalism is right. Global government forcing people to eat insects is fine. Individual carbon credits dictated by the few for use by the many is fine. Rationing water, energy, and food is fine. It’s everyone else who is wrong, not Harari, according to Harari. He attacks every group on earth from his high horse to pretend that he is somehow virtuous because his group doesn’t claim to have invented anything. All the while he relies, on the dubious proclamations of fraudulent evolutionary scientists, anthropological projections, and hidden archaeological records which would destroy his narrative. His group did create something – a big fat lie called evolution. Upon that lie Harari, and many others, have destroyed mankind’s connection to the Creator.
And speaking of destroying mankind’s connection to God – Harari devoted seven pages to exclusively hate God and anyone who believes in God. Consider the following carefully, especially in light of what Harari is representing – a global totalitarian government (page 208):
“Similarly, the value of religious rites and sacred places depends on the type of feelings and behaviors they inspire. If visiting a temple makes people experience peace and harmony, that’s wonderful. But if a particular temple causes violence and conflicts, what do we need it for? It is clearly a dysfunctional temple. Just as it is pointless to fight over a sick tree that produces thorns rather than fruits, it is also pointless to fight over a defective temple that produces enmity rather than harmony.”
What is Harari really saying? He’s really saying that the global government will define appropriate feelings and behaviors. Don’t like baby murder and it makes you sick? Too bad – Harari’s government says if you don’t have a license for childbirth that baby needs to be murdered in the womb. Want to protest the licenses? That behavior is unacceptable – no food and water for you today. Change Harari’s use of the word temple to religions. The conflict is being thrust, intentionally, upon religious institutions by the secular world who damn-well know that Catholics won’t accept abortion, Muslims won’t accept homosexuality, and Hindu’s will never treat Brahman’s and Dalit’s the same. Since each of those religious ideas pose problems to the global government, Harari is promising those elements of those religions will be removed to promote social harmony. Murdering babies is wrong, same-sex relationships are non-reproductive and are useless, without a caste system the Hindu religion would not even exist. But his argument does not stop at religions, it goes right to the heart of what kind of person Harari really is – a bloodthirsty totalitarian who hates God. The quote also applies to any individual’s speech or action. He’s not concerned with temples, he’s concerned with compliance to the ‘greater good’ as he sees it – global edicts, resource rationing and scarcity, and the quest to achieve an age-old lie, immortality and the transhumanist technologies to facilitate it.
Harari’s 12 pages about secularism can be summed up, along with his nonchalant views of horrific murderers (Stalin) and absolute idolization of Karl Marx on page 216:
“Karl Marx began by claiming that all religions were oppressive frauds, and he encouraged his followers to investigate for themselves the true nature of the global order. In the following decades the pressures of revolution and war hardened Marxism, and by the time of Stalin the official line of the Soviet Communist Party said that because the global order was too complicated for ordinary people to understand, it was best to always trust the wisdom of the party and do whatever it told you to do, even when it orchestrated the imprisonment and extermination of tens of millions of innocent people. It might look ugly but, as party ideologues never got tired of explaining, revolution isn;t a picnic, and if you want an omelette you need to break a few eggs.
“Whether one should view Stalin as a secular leader is therefore a matter of how we define secularism. If we use the minimalist negative definition – ‘secular people don’t believe in God’ – then Stalin was definitely secular. If we use a positive definition – ‘secular people reject all unscientific dogmas and are committed to truth, compassion, and freedom’ – then Marx was a secular luminary and Stalin was anything but. He was the prophet of the godless but extremely dogmatic religion of Stalinism.”
With no objective reality there can be no objective truth. Harari, again proving to be pathetically ignorant of simple facts, just ignores what disagrees with him. Secularism, by denying all objective truth relies on a subjective truth – whatever a secularist chooses to believe is the truth. Being as though Stalin and Marx held no objectivity, they could bend their morality at will. Stalin very well may have believed he was a compassionate man, and out of that compassion he may have seen a necessity to commit acts justified by whatever truth he made up (Article 58’s). What I call atrocities, because I can objectively state that murder and false imprisonment is always evil, Stalin could call compassionate actions based on his subjective truth. Orwell summed this up very well – Slavery is Freedom. That is Marxism in a nutshell. Just because Harari lacks the courage to state that if he were given the opportunity he, like Stalin, would not hesitate to exercise his version of subjective truth to bring about the compassionate destruction of humanity to achieve his own aims doesn’t matter. It’s exactly what Harari would do, and he knows it. It’s what Marxist’s have to do – all dissent must be silenced, all truth must be subject to the truth presented by the state, only the state can be compassionate, and all freedom is a fleeting tolerance which can disappear at anytime the state wishes it to. Harari wants that model to govern the entire world.
He says as much on page 217:
“Of course, not all dogmas are equally harmful. Just as some religious beliefs have benefited humanity, so also have some secular dogmas. This is particularly true of the doctrine of human rights. The only place rights exist is in the stories humans invent and tell one another. These stories were enshrined as self-evident dogma during the struggle against religious bigotry and autocratic governments. Though it isn’t true that humans have a natural right to life or liberty, belief in this story curbed the power of authoritarian regimes, protected minorities from harm, and safeguarded billions from the worst consequences of poverty and violence. It thereby contributed to the happiness and welfare of humanity probably more than any other doctrine in human history.” [emphasis mine].
There is a lot of hypocrisy, hubris, and flat out stupidity displayed by Harari here. He did this so that he could suggest on the following pages that this, too would need to be gotten rid of to make way for the technological utopia he envisages.
He claims everyone is ignorant. He claims that justice needs to be remade in the image of, well, globalists just like himself. He claims that we live in a post-truth world that will only be fixed through paying for articles and always referring to scientific literature. He is suggesting creating a technocratic dictatorship where the only truth that can arise is the truth the scientific community decides upon. For example, when scientists decide that a bullet is responsible for causing a death, and that the firearm which propelled that bullet was responsible for the bullet’s propulsion while ignoring that someone had to pull the trigger and that person had some intention of something when they did that, the scientists can demonize firearms and bullets, demanding they both be banned, while ignoring the real problem – the shooter’s intentions and history.
After he suggests that scientists communicate to the common folks of the world through science fiction Harari warns us that science fiction is not what the future will look like. Harari badly mangles the intent of the Martix and The Truman Show in order to push his agenda. He does this because he believes in the myth of transhumanism. On page 255 he wrote, “The current technological and scientific revolution implies not that authentic individuals and authentic realities can be manipulated by algorithms and TV cameras but rather that authenticity is a myth.” Harari is demanding that the subjective truth he demands that people accept cannot be authentic. In order to be authentic, Harari argues that we must escape ourselves altogether as described on page 255, “People are afraid of being trapped inside a box, but they don’t realize they are already trapped inside a box – their brain – which is locked within the bigger box of human society with it’s myriad functions.” Not only must humans escape their own brains, according to Harari, all of society must be destroyed and transcended if anyone ever hopes to have a chance at authenticity.
Harari, still pushing the idea that humans are hackable and that we are merely chemical reactions waiting to be understood in order to be hacked points to a movie called Inside Out. Disney, who now consistently produces worthless, woke crap and markets it as entertainment put this particular specimen out to get kids introduced to the idea that they do not have free will. Then he ties the ideas in Inside Out to the absolutely disgusting world written about by UNESCO founder, Julian Huxley’s, brother Aldous, Brave New World. Because Harari is actually a psychopathic murderer hell bent on realizing a totalitarian technocratic global government being implemented to foster transhumanism at all costs (he can deny that charge all he wants, the fact is, based on objective truth, this book being exhibit #1), he writes of Brave New World on page 259, “Reading Brave New World is a disconcerting and challenging experience in large part because you are hard-pressed to put your finger on what exactly makes it dystopian. The world is peaceful and prosperous, and everyone is supremely satisfied all the time. What could possibly be wrong with that?” Well everyone is a lab-created biological entity who is on drugs 24/7 and has every single activity they do regulated and scheduled by someone else. How about that for starters as to why it’s dystopian, Harari, you God-hating Jew?
The last part of the book covers resilience. He redefines resillience to mean acceptance of whatever garbage he and his neo-Nazi loving globalist cram down our throats. On page 268 Harari stated how he hopes education will change:
“So what should we be teaching? Many pedagogical experts argue that schools should switch to teaching ‘the four Cs’ – critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. More broadly, they believe, schools should downplay technical skills and emphasize general-purpose life skills. Most important of all will be the ability to deal with change, learn new things, and preserve your mental balance in unfamiliar situations. In order to keep up with the world of 2050, you will need not merely to invent new ideas and products but above all to reinvent yourself again and again.”
I can only imagine what Harari would have to say about where transhumanism, gender reassignment surgery, and globalism would fit into this education. I also really wonder what all of these knowledgeable people are going to have to communicate about. How do you create something when you have no knowledge of the way anything works. What they will create are completely useless humans who know how to obey the commands of their masters – the global-elite transhumanists. Later in the chapter Harari tells school-aged children to not trust the adults in their lives.
Page 274 really sums up Harari’s entire point of being on this earth. Namely, he hates you, he hates himself even more, and he hates the fact that he will be judged by his Creator. So he describes exactly what is going on on what he thinks the vast majority of us should choose to do with this information:
“The algorithms are watching you right now. They are watching where you go, what you buy, whom you meet. Soon they will monitor all your steps, all your breaths, all your heartbeats. They are relying on Big Data and machine learning to get to know you better and better. And once these algorithms know you better than you know yourself, they can control and manipulate you, and you won;t be able to do much about it. You will live in the matrix, or in The Truman Show. In the end, it’s a simple empirical matter: if the algorithms indeed understand what’s happening within you better than you understand it yourself, authority will shift to them.
“Of course, you might be perfectly happy ceding all authority to the algorithms and trusting them to decide things for you and for the rest of the world. If so, just relax and enjoy the ride. You don’t need to do anything about it. The algorithms will take care of everything. If, however, you want to retain some control over your personal existence and the future of life, you have to run faster than the algorithms, faster than Amazon and the government, and get to know yourself before they do. To run fast, don’t take much baggage with you. Leave all you illusions behind. They are very heavy.”
The illusions Harari refers to are everything you believe about anything. He’s telling you to be a blank slate in order to preserve the blank slate he suggests you become. Nationality, religion, family ties, race, gender all need to go in order to outrun the algorithms according to Harari. All of these ideas are merely baggage which will slow you down, according to Harari. His concern is not that we can escape from the technology-driven Marxist craphole he is building, his concern is getting people to think that everything else in this book is trash ideas that one may not wish to be crushed by. Harari is telling his readers that escape is possible as long as the route leads you straight into his demonic grasp.
This mode of life is going to be stripped of every form of meaning. Harari has assured us that the WEF’s vision is to destroy humans themselves and that includes meaningful living. Harari decides it’s not worth answering the questions about meaning because to him it’s all made up fiction. He needs everyone else to believe that though, so he spends a lot of time bashing ‘fictions’ which he had not gotten around to in the preceding 274 pages. Living a meaningful life means living with purpose and Harari really hates anyone with a purpose that doesn’t match his. His most clear answer to what a meaningful life looks like is found on page 313:
“Even though all these big stories are fictions generated by our own minds, there is no reason for despair. Reality still exists. You cannot play a part in any make-believe drama, but why would you want to do that in the first place? The big question facing humans isn’t ‘what is the meaning of life?’ but rather ‘how do we stop suffering?’ When you give up all the fictional stories, you can observe with far greater clarity than before, and if you really know the truth about yourself and about the world, nothing can make you miserable.”
Because Harari has decided that to live a meaningful life humans need to understand themselves and reduce their own, and others, suffering, he advises the reader to meditate. The purpose is for the individual who is meditating to explore their mind, as described on pages 320-321:
“Science finds it hard to decipher the mysteries of the mind largely because we lack efficient tools. Many people, including many scientists, tend to confuse the mind with the brain, but they are really very different things. The brain is a material network of neurons, synapses, and biochemicals. The mind is a flow of subjective experiences, such as pain, pleasure, anger, and love. Biologists assume that the brain somehow produces the mind and that biochemical reactions in billions of neurons somehow produce experiences such as pain and love. However, so far we have absolutely no explanation for how the mind emerges from the brain. Why is it that when billions of neurons fire are firing electrical signals in a particular pattern, I feel love? We haven’t got a clue. Therefore, even if the mind indeed emerges from the brain, studying the mind is a different undertaking from studying the brain, at least for now.”
After this, Harari discusses the benefits of using these subjective experiences as research. Honestly, it is kind of nonsensical to use unverifiable data in a scientific endeavor but then again I’ll never think of Harari as a particularly scientific person. While individuals explore their mind, he encourages scientists to continue exploring the brain until those two fields are able to converge. He describes the two efforts as burning a candle at both ends. There are scientific inventions which have been proposed which are capable of implanting sounds, visions, and even memories into unsuspecting victims – Harari doesn’t mention any of those in his book. It is peculiar then that Harari suggests we meditate to learn our true selves while he knows such project-blue-beam-esque technologies exist. And what is meditation really supposed to accomplish? Meditation is supposed to allow human beings to alter their brain’s frequency at will, at least for a short while. It is highly interesting that Harari wants all of us to change the frequency of our brains for a time.
He closes the book with a question and answer session. Harari demands that ideas about good times in the past be discarded and claims that technology needs to be used “wisely” (page 327). No technology has ever been developed which has not found a use in warfare. Harari, waging a war against humanity, will unquestioningly use new technologies to bring about his version of the technological utopia he envisions. Harari fields a question about free-will and makes the claim that if people, wrongly, believe they have free-will, they will be unable to know their true self. According to Harari, in tandem with an education which features no impartation of knowledge, no one needs to read books (or anything else) in order to explore their inner self. He suggest meditation, art, and sports are the best routes. He doesn’t think Google, and other demons lurking in Silicon Valley, is evil. He thinks that machines may be more caring than people. He does actually admit that his homosexuality taints his rationality. Harari then uses ‘science’ to note that homosexuality is common in nature. He discusses what love is to him – connectedness – and then turns around and bashes actual scientists who are skeptical about climate change being man-made. Harari notes that he advocates for depopulation and loves the idea of the birthrate falling. He wraps up the book by answering a question about whether he is an optimist or a pessimist regarding humanity’s future. “I try to be a realist,” was his answer on page 334.
Harari’s suggestion to ‘escape’ is not contained within the pages of this book. Escape means never taking the chips, the digital currencies, nor the advice of artificial intelligence as gospel. Escape from the system Harari and the WEF, UN, WHO, and many others, advocate – the Antichrist system – means drawing close to God, knowing He loves you, and knowing and following His Laws. Harari flirts with just laying out the truth of his intentions when he mentions the book Brave New World. John the Savage, the Christian, accepts all of the bad things that can happen as well as the good – the whole range of human experience, even suffering. We all need to be like John, seeking the face of our Creator, longing only for the favor of God. The society Harari suggests (the society in Brave New World – if you haven’t read the book, I suggest you do) only permits ‘humans’ to experience their full range of humanity in controlled settings which are mandated to be attended. It’s not a future I want to be a part of, and I’m kind of lazy. Thus, I am praying that the savage camp we create in the real world is massive and I don’t have to make too dramatic of a change. That all depends on you and what your intentions are.