Homo Deus

For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases.

If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death, it is because some politician wants them to.

The era when humankind stood helpless before natural epidemics is probably over.

Whereas in ancient agricultural societies human violence caused about 15 percent of all deaths, during the twentieth century violence caused only 5 percent of deaths.

Humankind has learned to resist this temptation. The gun that appeared in the first act of the Cold War was never fired.

Dreamtime Sapiens rule the world because only they can weave an intersubjective web of meaning.

Humans think they make history, but history actually revolves around the web of stories.

Only Sapiens can imagine such chimeras.

The Agricultural Revolution... provided the necessary material base for enlarging and strengthening the intersubjective networks.

Humans think they make history, but history actually revolves around the web of stories.