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My first book, Sapiens, surveyed the human past, examining how an insignificant ape became the ruler of
Deus,
liberal
democracy.
predicament
nationalism
Terrorism works by pressing the fear button deep in our minds and hijacking the private imaginations of millions of individuals.
ensnared
predicament.
fascism,
commu...
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liber...
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autocrats
PHOENIX
Archduke
imperialism
liber...
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maelstrom
fascism
liberalism
plight
Marxism-Leninism
“you can fool all the people some of the time, and some people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
diabolical
subversion,
imperialism?
Confucian
reconciled
proletariat
bourge...
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bewilderment.
hubris.
smug
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Vaunted
proletariat
stragglers?
eternal
ephemeral
sports to religion. Perhaps the most successful
avant la lettre.
liberalism
Hypochondriacs
philistines,
beset
don’t really know where I fit into the great scheme of things, or how my bits of data connect with the bits produced by billions of other humans and computers. I don’t have time to find out, because I am too busy answering all these emails.
action. Few trolley problems have been solved to the satisfaction of all philosophers, and consequentialist thinkers such as John Stuart Mill (who judge actions by consequences) hold quite different opinions from deontologists such as Immanuel Kant (who
and the Tesla Egoist. In an emergency, the Altruist
contravened
amygdala),
