Yuval Noah Harari

Or you can be like, you know, the American Constitution, which starts with we the people. The American Constitution lays down certain rules for a society, but the amazing thing about it, it does not pretend to come from an external source. The Ten Commandments start with I am your Lord God. And because it starts with that, you can't change them.

Or you can be like, you know, the American Constitution, which starts with we the people. The American Constitution lays down certain rules for a society, but the amazing thing about it, it does not pretend to come from an external source. The Ten Commandments start with I am your Lord God. And because it starts with that, you can't change them.

Or you can be like, you know, the American Constitution, which starts with we the people. The American Constitution lays down certain rules for a society, but the amazing thing about it, it does not pretend to come from an external source. The Ten Commandments start with I am your Lord God. And because it starts with that, you can't change them.

You know, the Tenth Commandment, for instance, supports slavery. The Tenth Commandment, in the Ten Commandments, it says that you should not covet your neighbor's house or your neighbor's wife or your neighbor's slaves. It's okay to hold slaves according to the Ten Commandments. It's just bad to covet the slaves of your neighbor.

You know, the Tenth Commandment, for instance, supports slavery. The Tenth Commandment, in the Ten Commandments, it says that you should not covet your neighbor's house or your neighbor's wife or your neighbor's slaves. It's okay to hold slaves according to the Ten Commandments. It's just bad to covet the slaves of your neighbor.

You know, the Tenth Commandment, for instance, supports slavery. The Tenth Commandment, in the Ten Commandments, it says that you should not covet your neighbor's house or your neighbor's wife or your neighbor's slaves. It's okay to hold slaves according to the Ten Commandments. It's just bad to covet the slaves of your neighbor.

Now, there is no 11th commandment which says, if you don't like some of the previous Ten Commandments, this is how you go about amending them, which is why we still have them unchanged. Now, in the US Constitution, you have all these rights and rules, including originally the ability to hold slaves. But the genius of the founding fathers of the United States, they had the humility to

Now, there is no 11th commandment which says, if you don't like some of the previous Ten Commandments, this is how you go about amending them, which is why we still have them unchanged. Now, in the US Constitution, you have all these rights and rules, including originally the ability to hold slaves. But the genius of the founding fathers of the United States, they had the humility to

Now, there is no 11th commandment which says, if you don't like some of the previous Ten Commandments, this is how you go about amending them, which is why we still have them unchanged. Now, in the US Constitution, you have all these rights and rules, including originally the ability to hold slaves. But the genius of the founding fathers of the United States, they had the humility to

to understand maybe we don't understand everything. Maybe we made some mistakes. So we tell you that these rules did not come from heaven. They came from us humans. We may have made a mistake. So here is a mechanism for how future generations can amend the constitution, which was used later on to, for instance, amend the constitution to ban slavery.

to understand maybe we don't understand everything. Maybe we made some mistakes. So we tell you that these rules did not come from heaven. They came from us humans. We may have made a mistake. So here is a mechanism for how future generations can amend the constitution, which was used later on to, for instance, amend the constitution to ban slavery.

to understand maybe we don't understand everything. Maybe we made some mistakes. So we tell you that these rules did not come from heaven. They came from us humans. We may have made a mistake. So here is a mechanism for how future generations can amend the constitution, which was used later on to, for instance, amend the constitution to ban slavery.

First of all, ideas are an independent force in history. Marxists tend to deny that. Marxists think that all history is just a play of material interests. And ideas, stories, they are just a smokescreen to hide the underlying interests. My thoughts are to some extent the opposite.

First of all, ideas are an independent force in history. Marxists tend to deny that. Marxists think that all history is just a play of material interests. And ideas, stories, they are just a smokescreen to hide the underlying interests. My thoughts are to some extent the opposite.

First of all, ideas are an independent force in history. Marxists tend to deny that. Marxists think that all history is just a play of material interests. And ideas, stories, they are just a smokescreen to hide the underlying interests. My thoughts are to some extent the opposite.

We have some biological objective interests that all humans share, like we need to eat, we need to drink, we need to breathe. But most conflicts in history are not about that. The interests which really drive most conflicts in history don't come from biology. They come from religions and ideologies and stories. So it's not that stories are a smokescreen to hide the real interests.

We have some biological objective interests that all humans share, like we need to eat, we need to drink, we need to breathe. But most conflicts in history are not about that. The interests which really drive most conflicts in history don't come from biology. They come from religions and ideologies and stories. So it's not that stories are a smokescreen to hide the real interests.

We have some biological objective interests that all humans share, like we need to eat, we need to drink, we need to breathe. But most conflicts in history are not about that. The interests which really drive most conflicts in history don't come from biology. They come from religions and ideologies and stories. So it's not that stories are a smokescreen to hide the real interests.

The stories create the interests in the first place. The stories define who are the competing groups. Nations, religions, cultures, they are not biological entities. They are not like species, like gorillas and chimpanzees, no. Israelis and Palestinians, or Germans and French, or Chinese and Americans, they have no essential biological difference between them. The difference is cultural.

The stories create the interests in the first place. The stories define who are the competing groups. Nations, religions, cultures, they are not biological entities. They are not like species, like gorillas and chimpanzees, no. Israelis and Palestinians, or Germans and French, or Chinese and Americans, they have no essential biological difference between them. The difference is cultural.