(January 14, 2018 at 1:44 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:(January 14, 2018 at 1:19 am)Conspiracy_of_reason Wrote: I'm going to have a go at Rational.
Beautifully stated. I expect you'll get some decent pushback, though. Be prepared!
(This could have been its own thread...)
Thank you.
Pushback is healthy.
"We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. We cooperate effectively with strangers because we believe in things like gods, nations, money and human rights. Yet none of these things exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money and no human rights—except in the common imagination of human beings. You can never convince a chimpanzee to give you a banana by promising him that after he dies, he will get limitless bananas in chimpanzee Heaven. Only Sapiens can believe such stories. This is why we rule the world, and chimpanzees are locked up in zoos and research laboratories."
Yuval Noah Harari
