Yuval Harari

Yuval Harari Instagram – There’s one big factor driving humans to repeatedly go to war, and it’s not what you might think.
 
“Humans don’t fight over territory and food. They fight over imaginary stories in their minds,” @yuval_noah_harari tells @ianbremmer on the upcoming episode of #GZEROWorld, which was filmed with a live audience at @92ndstreety.
 
Think of Jerusalem. “It’s one of the most fought over places in human history,” he explains, yet “there are no oil fields, there are no gold mines, nothing. But in their imagination, people think, oh, this is not a stone. This is a holy stone. This is not just any place. It’s full of angels and gods and saints and prophets, and they fight over this.”
 
Watch #GZEROWorld on Saturday at 6:30 pm on @thirteenwnet in NYC and on public tv stations across the US (check local listings). | Posted on 07/Mar/2024 22:20:30