Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

farm animals stopped being viewed as living creatures that could feel pain and distress, and instead came to be treated as machines.

Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.

Does happiness really depend on self-delusion?

the real question facing us is not ‘What do we want to become?’, but ‘What do we want to want?’