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Yuval Noah Harari reveals the real dangers ahead

The TED Interview

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The History of the World

Wyatt: It's dangerous to confuse a story we have constructed in a particular historical setting and think that we can just apply it to any other political and geographical location. People are annoyed at you at being too calm in your recommendations about what we should do, he says. But i don't think that we have the option of just saying, these developments are extremely dangerous. Let's stop. And even if you do it in one country, other countries will not do that. So say something therefore, something like human rights, which is a human construction and, in one sense, a fiction. As measured by an attempt to alleviate suffering, is that i was a very good story,

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