Analysis Of Haari's Sapiens

Harari’s Sapiens Sapiens written by Yuval Noah Harari depicts the history of humans in his own way. By bringing the history and science of human development together he creates valid points that make the mind of the reader rethink their existence. His ideas began with the
Cognitive and Agricultural development and how it changed the course of history. In many ways there was much to find in these two eras and from the finding Harari explains his reasoning for believing why they were so prominent to us Homo-Sapiens today. Starting with his point of the Cognitive Development he explains the mentality of past Sapiens in comparison to those that are known today. Harari explains that with the creation of fictions by Homo-Sapiens, the …show more content…
With the idea of fictions religion, money, and so on all came from communication. Yes, Harari, explains that talking or gossiping is the way that the world revolved around the fictions created. Harari’s theory of gossiping brought many factors into the equation. All the aspects of life we believe in life did not just appear they all originated in one place -- our minds. The imagined order only came in the aspect of speech. With the two connected there is more that can be figured out over time. “Legends, myths, gods, and religions appeared for the first time with the Cognitive Revolution,” Harari quotes (p 24). This Cognitive Revolution had certain ideas that related to the thought of fictions. The most important piece is the aspect of the theory of gossip. With gossip it seems that overtime that is how the language of Sapiens evolved and changed the cognitive revolution. Without the spoken language of detail and explanation there would be an intangible amount of material and historical barriers. The Neanderthals beat us first but our language is what …show more content…
(p 210)” The last fiction created by mankind, Harari explains religion as a higher existential power. He gives two examples of what religions could possibly be and how they were formed. An example of early higher belief was Animism, which was known to be a nonspecific type of religion that was expressed as an ‘generic name for thousands of very different religions, cults, beliefs.’ Mentioning this strikes the reader and can affect the thought of how religions, cults, and beliefs. Expressing his explanation, Harari gives the history of how religion was spread, yet it is interesting because it only appeared after the first millennium bc. With animism being the root of religion it then began to break into its separate views and ideas because of the start of kingdoms. Once kingdoms had been created people wanted to interact with their entities to ensure help with control of their entire kingdom and trade