Sapiens

After possibly almost a year, I finally finished Sapiens. It was a book I had to read, stop reading for a bit and then pick back up to truly appreciate. There’s just so much information and thought packed into each page of that book that it took me an abnormally long time to read through it.

I’m going to reread the book soon at some point in time. It’s that fascinating and thought provoking.

I loved how Yuval Noah Harrari ended the book to tie everything together. He posed the question: what do we want to want?

Humans are achieving feats at an unprecedented rate, but despite these accomplishments, we likely are not much happier today. On our quest to accomplishment, humans have largely destroyed the well being of other animals and our ecosystem.

So we have no idea what we are trying to accomplishment and we are destroying everything along the way. That’s a terrifying prospect.

The optimist in me wants to believe that we can right this ship as a human race, but only time will tell.