#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

1877.449 - 1901.096 Yuval Noah Harari

You know, you can't convince a group of chimpanzees to come together to fight a war or build a cathedral by promising to them, if you do that, after you die, you go to chimpanzee heaven and you get lots of bananas and coconuts. No chimpanzee will ever believe that. Humans believe these stories, which is why we have these huge religious networks. But it's the same thing with modern politics.