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

9241.309 - 9280.025 Yuval Noah Harari

One of the reasons I became so interested in stories and in their power was I grew up in a small Israeli town in the 1980s, early 1990s, which was very homophobic. And I basically embraced it. I breathed it because you could hardly even think differently. So you had these two powerful stories around. One, that God hates gay people and that he will punish them for who they are or for what they do.