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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I have decided to blame Harari for everything. He turned public-intellectual culture from mostly harmless sideshow of Tom Friedman/Malcolm Gladwell era to toxic “service thinking” designed to align with target tribal fictions https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari
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Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
I feel like the more attention people like Harari receive, the more criticism they attract, which makes sense. At the risk of being non-gloomy, are there books or specific authors that might get compared to Harari that are more factually correct and/or tend to be more celebrated by the scientific community?
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I think more honest people would not attempt such grand global syntheses at book length at all but do something like fiction, or focus on a particular thread in history to make more cautious versions of the points with a lot more data. I think Tom Holland's Dominion might be a decent example though I haven't read it
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Leo
@lsn
This just means that it’s only dishonest thinkers who appear to the public at least to be offering insight at the highest level Lemons market for public intellectuals where the quality of the product is u clear (I note you’re making a descriptive not a normative claim)
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Anuraj R
@anurajenp
Robert Sapolsky’s “Behave” is good I think
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
Dominion was fun. Much narrower in scope. *just* the geopolitics of Christianity
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