Until recently, it was very difficult to hack and manipulate human feelings. Now when governments and corporations have the pow er to manipulate human feelings, then this whole system has reached an extremely dangerous point. If we're coming directly from the stone age to trusting human feelings, that's, that's not going to be good. It required certain prerequisites, that we would trust the foundations of our beliefs in our feelings. There are millions of years of wisdom baked into your feelings though. And therefore, you know, look at the last 200 years. This humanist idea of lats base ethics and politics on human feelings worked remarkably well. i think it was the best systems compared to all the alternatives
Yuval Noah Harari is one of the rare historians who can give us a two-million-year perspective on today’s headlines. In this wide-ranging conversation, Yuval explains how technology and democracy have evolved together over the course of human history, from paleolithic tribes to city states to kingdoms to nation states. So where do we go from here? “In almost all the conversations I have,” Yuval says, “we get stuck in dystopia and we never explore the no less problematic questions of what happens when we avoid dystopia.” We push beyond dystopia and consider the nearly unimaginable alternatives in this special episode of Your Undivided Attention.