The Earth Is Not at the Centre, Actually, the Sun Is Not

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We're going through a kind of copernican revolution, where we had political systems orbiting around human feelings and choice. Actually, were no longer orbiting around li. The earth is not at the centre, actually, the sun is the centre. And that we need to be optimizing for is not like your goal or my goal, but the interdependence of ow this planet that we live ontiithis one spaceship that we must keep going if we want everything else to survive.

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.