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This book will probably always stick with me for one very big idea. While discussing Marxism, Harari noted how Marx's economic theories got co-opted, warped and incorporated into capitalism. This is the problem we face with literature, science and religion as humans. An idea is introduced into the system and the system is fundamentally changed. The system doesn't run in reverse, only forward, so a theory like Marx proposed becomes irrelevant in its original form, not because it was wrong, but be
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