Two Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari
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The Kingdom of France in the Twelfth Century Was Not a Totalitarian Regime
As human societies grew larger, it was impossible to have large scale democracies. You don't have any example of a large scale democracy until the late eighteenth century or even the nineteenth century. The same technologies can also be used to build totalitarian regimes which were also impossible before the modern age. And that's when we see themerg of these two new political systems.
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