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isn’t the sapiens writer zionist?
I’m not sure, but that book has me thinking about how effective capitalist society mythicizes reality. I mean, if you really want to know about humanity, you can just read works directly written by anthropologists and not some hack making shit up. But obviously that can’t be supported since anthropological evidence supports Marxism to a large extent and to a larger extent completely invalidates liberal ideology
he sure seems like one
How come? I can’t find much about what his stances are on Zionism, what has he said?
I might be using the term too loosely; all I meant is that he’s from “Israel” and AFAICT he seems to consider it a legitimate state, and his secularism doesn’t make much of a difference. He’s also heavily involved with the World Economic Forum, so he’s almost certainly a piece of shit
He is but he’s pretty critical of Israel as a totalitarian police/surveillance state. Probably a believer in a two-state solution, which to be honest there are Palestinians that support that too.
Either way, he’s got a point about mythmaking. All of recorded history is essentially storytelling – narration of varying degrees of unreliability. History is propaganda, and whatever class controls the narrative of history at any given point in time, also controls the advancement of their struggle and the sustaining of their rule.
In Marxist terms, it’s just one way the superstructure can influence the base. So it’s not he’s particularly advancing anything new, just articulating the same notion from a different angle with different phrasing.
I’d assume so, he sucks. When I read it fortunately most of what stuck from it in my mind was that humanity can live in many ways and is not just stuck with one type of organization, and the bit about how religions work, as opposed to the transhumanism, anti-communism, and saying “corporations are people.” The first bits helped me understand the Marxist conception of history and religion a bit more (although it kind of spurred my new atheist phase at first).