I read Yuval Harari's book. It's a good book but he chickens out of saying difficult to hear things about us humans. It was extremely obvious to me that he ska

I read Yuval Harari's book. It's a good book but he chickens out of saying difficult to hear things about us humans. It was extremely obvious to me that he skates figure eights around controversial topics because he made contradictory statements several times. In the first half of the book he'll say one thing, and then in the second half he'll kowtow to prevailing orthodoxies about humans. During my reading I began to think he might be writing it in a Straussian style i.e. one version of reality for intellectuals, another for the plebs. My copy of his books is sprinkled with exclamation marks. Given how popular witch hunts are these days perhaps that what it takes to get a message out there. We are biological animals! We are flawed beings! Let's accept this and move on!