“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single teacup. So it finds a bull, gets inside its ear and starts buzzing. The bull goes wild with fear and anger and destroys the china shop. This is what happened in the Middle East in the last decade. Islamic fundamentalists could never have toppled Saddam Hussein by themselves. Instead they enraged the USA by the 9/11 attacks, and the USA destroyed the Middle Eastern china shop for them. Now they flourish in the wreckage.” Yuval Noah Harari in his book ‘Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow’
Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author. Books include:
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.
The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000.
Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550.
Renaissance Military Memoirs: War, History and Identity, 1450-1600.
“Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” by Yuval Noah Harari is a book well worth reading because he explains his thoughts in a crystal clear way. The history of tomorrow is insightful and not without subtle humour. The book could give causes for concerns about our future, but it is said ‘forewarned is forearmed’!
illustration sketch of Yuval Noah Harari
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