Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – What You Really Need to Know
🔑 Key Points 🧠 Cognitive Revolution: Our ancestors gained the ability to imagine fictions—religion, nations, laws—allowing large-group cooperation. 🌾 Agricultural Revolution: Farming trapped humans in harder lives with more food but less freedom and more social inequality. 💰 Money = Shared Myth: Currencies are trust-based systems enabling cooperation among strangers, foundational to economies. ✝️ Religion & Empires: Unified large populations under common values; both were tools of control and identity. 📚 History = Stories: Human culture is built on intersubjective realities—beliefs that exist only because we agree they do. ⚙️ Scientific Revolution: Knowledge for power’s sake emerged, driving exploration, capitalism, and technological empires. 💼 Capitalism & Credit: Capitalism thrives on future faith—credit systems fuel innovation but also dependency and inequality. 🌍 Globalization: Modern humanity is a unified global network, but cultural homogenization and ecologic...