Yuval Noah Harari

And the question is, how do we live with them?

And this is why also liberalism invests a lot in building what I think is the most important thing in every large scale human system, which is a self-correcting mechanism.

if you believe that your view of the world was given to you by God, so it cannot contain any error, you do not need a self-correcting mechanism, because there are no mistakes.

Liberalism starts with the assumption that it's just human beings trying to do the best we can, and there will be mistakes, there will be errors, so we need strong self-correcting mechanisms.

The most famous mechanism is, of course, elections.

That every four years or five years or whatever, the people can say, hey, we made a mistake last time.

Let's try something else this time.

And all these very complicated systems of checks and balances and independent courts and freedom of press and all these are just a complicated way to ensure that the country has a robust self-correcting mechanism.

Yes.

First of all, the truth is costly.

To know the truth, to produce a true story, you need to invest a lot of time and energy in investigating it.

Fiction is very cheap.

And fiction can be made as simple as you would like it to be.

And people like simple stories, like, you know, these simplified narratives, good against evil.

We are 100% good.

We have never done anything bad in our history.

They are 100% evil.

They have never done anything good in their history.

Very simple, very attractive.

And the truth is not just complicated.