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Interestingly, the communist order has its presiding deities in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels holy books and scripts such as Marx’s Das Kapital and festivals and holidays such as May Day and October Revolution Day. But Buddhism too gives short shrift to gods, yet it’s commonly classified as a religion”.
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True that Islam sees the superhuman order governing the world as the edict of an omnipotent creator god, whereas Soviet Communism didn’t believe in gods. “If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam. Modern ideologies like Liberalism, Communism, Nazim are called by the author as natural-law religions. Harari’s views on world religions are quitecontrary to conventional wisdom. The first universal order was economic (capitalism), the second was political (imperialism), and the last one was religious (e.g. Harari’s frank views about a few episodes in the history of humankind are somewhat startling and critics have decried some of his forthright assertions as bordering on to sensationalism.Īfter the Agricultural Revolution (History’s Biggest Fraud !), the world witnessed three potentially universal orders under which people could for the first time imagine the entire world and human race as a single unit governed by a single set of laws. The story has been recounted in a delightful manner that kept me fully engrossed from the opening page to the last. Third, the Scientific Revolution which got under way only 500 years ago. Second, the Agricultural Revolution that shaped the course of history about 12,000 years ago. First, the Cognitive Revolution that kickstarted history some 70,000 years ago.
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The book tells the story of three critically important epochs in the history of mankind that have affected humans and their fellow organisms. From Jerusalem to Ranchi, Harari’s ideas seemed to have travelled quite a distance! It was about time, methought, to jump on Harari bandwagon. The top State bureaucrat was seen quoting profusely from the book during his powerful oration, and thereby most aptly buttressing his arguments. This humble reader was however still Harari hesitant when a recent speech by the present Chief Secretary of Jharkhand before a gathering of entrepreneurs turned the scales. Sapiens has indeed caught the fancy of millions of readers worldwide. Having been translated into over sixty languages, the book has become essential reading for the crème de la crème, including Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. His maiden book ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind’ - first published in Hebrew in 2011 and later translated in English in 2014 by the author himself - has now become an international phenomenon. Yuval Noah Harari is a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.