Humanity Dominates Through Imagined Order
What makes us unique is our ability to believe in things that exist only in our imagination. Nations, money, religion—these are all imagined orders.
Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and bestselling author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, exploring the course of human history and humanity's possible future.
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