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“The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the rich is ‘Invest!’ The supreme commandment of the rest of us is ‘Buy!”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Modern culture has nevertheless been willing to embrace ignorance to a much greater degree than has any previous culture. One of the things that has made it possible for modern social orders to hold together is the spread of an almost religious belief in technology and in the methods of scientific research, which have replaced to some extent the belief in absolute truths.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Finally, in 1880, the British government took the unprecedented step of legislating that all timetables in Britain must follow Greenwich. For the first time in history, a country adopted a national time and obliged its population to live according to an artificial clock rather than local ones or sunrise-to-sunset cycles.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, scurvy is estimated to have claimed the lives of about 2 million sailors.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Today all humans are, to a much greater extent than they usually want to admit, European in dress, thought and taste. They may be fiercely anti-European in their rhetoric, but almost everyone on the planet views politics, medicine, war and economics through European eyes, and listens to music written in European modes with words in European languages. Even today’s burgeoning Chinese economy, which may soon regain its global primacy, is built on a European model of production and finance.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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