And that for all the suffering it has brought, coupled with democracy, free markets and the socialist element of welfare programs it has brought more good to more people than any other (belief) system to date. He admits that the liberal story, for all its drawbacks, has proven to be superior to the communist and the fascist story. Why oh why did we not stay in the savannah picking berries? Our liberal story and the triple challenges we faceĪfter fairly honestly and bravely dismantling and picking at the power of the “Liberal story” to help us navigate the complex, global information society we have at the beginning of the 21st century, Harari goes on to explain how the three challenges we face now can not be resolved by us if we adhere to liberalism in its current form. Trying to summarize and reflect on the 21 chapters in three neat sections is a more than challenging endeavour. Whereas the former two books focus on recounting in largely chronological order the history and faraway future of the human race respectively, the current book offers a mix of immediate thoughts about our current predicament as humans in the present and the not-too distant future. Here’s my review that can save you four hours of reading, or inspire you to buy the book. Those questions do get you thinking, though. In the new book, Harari gladly recycles and bundles outtakes from those and other previous publications, and mainly adds a lot of questions. I just finished reading “ 21 lessons for the 21st century ” by Yuval Noah Harari, one of my favorite writers and well-known for his best-sellers “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus”.

21 lessons for 21st century