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

3068.035 - 3096.969 Yuval Noah Harari

We have some biological objective interests that all humans share, like we need to eat, we need to drink, we need to breathe. But most conflicts in history are not about that. The interests which really drive most conflicts in history don't come from biology. They come from religions and ideologies and stories. So it's not that stories are a smokescreen to hide the real interests.