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Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways,
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“The average Christian believes in the monotheist God, but also in the dualist Devil, in polytheist saints, and in animist ghosts.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“And beyond the literal landscape—the one that has been tilled and planted or logged or fenced or simply let alone—there is the ideal landscape that lives only in the mind. Every day you explore the difference between the two, knowing that you can see what no one else can.”
― The Rural Life
― The Rural Life
“Scholars of religion have a name for this simultaneous avowal of different and even contradictory ideas and the combination of rituals and practices taken from different sources. It’s called syncretism. Syncretism might, in fact, be the single great world religion.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“All human cultures are at least in part the legacy of empires and imperial civilisations, and no academic or political surgery can cut out the imperial legacies without killing the patient.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“For the merchants, the entire world was a single market and all humans were potential customers. They tried to establish an economic order that would apply to all, everywhere. For the conquerors, the entire world was a single empire and all humans were potential subjects, and for the prophets, the entire world held a single truth and all humans were potential believers. They too tried to establish an order that would be applicable for everyone everywhere.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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