What the world would be if Gods kneel to preachers?
Do I call this a history book?? No, probably not. It hits your thought process, it questions your existence, your value, meaning,origin, future in life. I will not put this book in a single category.
Three revolutions in four parts; Cognitive revolution, Agricultural revolution and Scientific revolution, Industrial revolution. Yuval Noah Harari, a professor from middle east wrote this masterpiece. A book where you find yourself as a forager, a peasant, an emperor, a capitalist and lastly as God itself. The writer did not ran away facing the tremendous controversial topics. Agricultural Revolution is the biggest fraud in human history or modern religions are nothing but fake or we are leading to doomsday by creating Frankenstein in the labs; nothing stopped him from giving a brave answer. The explanations were unbiased, fair, neutral but not safe, diplomatic, or emotional. The greatest attraction the book holds are the examples. The examples made the hardest of concepts, a child’s play.
As soon as you start reading this book, you will start to question everything and everyone. You will start to question happiness and human conscious itself. The biggest scientific discoveries came from the greatest obstacles. So you start to realize for the major breakthrough we need a heavy obstacle but simultaneously you realize it will lead us towards complete annihilation. We, the new Neanderthals in an Unknown world of our own design.
But agreed that the book is a bit monotonous at places and a few chapters are unnecessarily stretched but the amount is too little to make a lasting effect.
Overall I would recommend this book to everyone who wants to have a revelation about everything and everyone.
Rating: 4.5/5
The hardest thing to look at is often the face in a flat mirror.