Michael’s Reviews > Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind > Status Update

Indians created the caste system. Ottomans created a religion system. Americans created a race system… How does one make these type of ideas stick in a growing society.

the quantity of your copies of dna represents the success of your species. But it is an incomplete gauge of success. It does not account for the individual suffering of each member of the species. Yes there were far fewer of us during the hunter/gatherer period, but they were far happier in life than the average peasant in the agricultural revolution. The Ag Rev set an inescapable trap that were stuck in to this day

The reason we are so ‘successful’ is because we have the ability to think of fiction, and unite and agree upon myths.