Suur One reviewed 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
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5 stars
This book is meant to provoke thoughts on current important issues (according to Harari). And it succeeds very well in it. It didn't feel like having too much of an agenda behind it (except provoking thought and helping understand the issues) even if it discusses issues like immigration, terrorism, religion, nationalism, etc. which seem to be difficult to discuss without passions getting in the way. But Harari discusses many of these things through use of the concept of stories people believe in, which for me at least was a great way to understand (not accept) stories that are pretty much complete opposites of the stories I believe in. The very last chapter on meditation, which would have been (for me personally) better if the meditation would have been a short side story and the chapter would have been more about observation and clarity, of which it did have a good …
This book is meant to provoke thoughts on current important issues (according to Harari). And it succeeds very well in it. It didn't feel like having too much of an agenda behind it (except provoking thought and helping understand the issues) even if it discusses issues like immigration, terrorism, religion, nationalism, etc. which seem to be difficult to discuss without passions getting in the way. But Harari discusses many of these things through use of the concept of stories people believe in, which for me at least was a great way to understand (not accept) stories that are pretty much complete opposites of the stories I believe in. The very last chapter on meditation, which would have been (for me personally) better if the meditation would have been a short side story and the chapter would have been more about observation and clarity, of which it did have a good lesson once I got past the praising of the meditation method Harari himself uses.