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We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy. After communism in eastern Europe
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
as knowledge became the most important economic resource, the profitability of war declined and wars became increasingly restricted to those parts of the world – such as the Middle East and Central Africa – where the economies are still old-fashioned material-based economies.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
- The MP3—destroyer of the music industry—arrived in 1993. Blogs appeared in 1997, and Blogger, the first
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
David Wengrow • An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
it may be better to call the last 70,000 years the Anthropocene epoch: the epoch of humanity. For during these millennia Homo sapiens became the single most important agent of change in the global ecology.5
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
After playing a crucial role in the shaping of modern Europe for more than two hundred years—think of Mendelssohn, Marx, Freud, Mahler, Kafka, Einstein—Jews will gradually leave center stage. The golden era of European Jewry will be over.
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
