Morgan Blackledge

“Social cooperation is our key for survival and reproduction.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The feedback loop between science, empire and capital has arguably been history’s chief engine for the past 500 years. The following chapters analyse its workings. First we’ll look at how the twin turbines of science and empire were latched to one another, and then learn how both were hitched up to the money pump of capitalism.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it. A tiny set of genetic variations divides us from the Neanderthals, but that has made all the difference.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“the basic lesson of evolutionary psychology: a need shaped in the wild continues to be felt subjectively even if it is no longer really necessary for survival and reproduction.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind