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What is funny about all this is treating Harari as some kind of expert. His training is in medieval military history. He is not an anthropologist. Yet he is al
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
What is funny about all this is treating Harari as some kind of expert.
His training is in medieval military history. He is not an anthropologist. Yet he is always make grand pronouncements about human behavior.
Most of his fame is not due to his academic achievements but because he can write very engaging popular works. Harari has a lot more in common with a popular YouTube “expert” than he would care to admit.
- pessimizer 2y agoSince he's using the New Yorker's journalism license here, he becomes an authority on whatever subject he wants. Disagreeing with him here is some sort of "-information" with prefix, and may get you deleted on facebook.
- carlmr 2y ago>His training is in medieval military history. He is not an anthropologist. Yet he is always make grand pronouncements about human behavior. Some of the best software engineers studied something else. Only because his training is in something else doesn't mean he didn't read up on it or is not knowledgeable about human behavior. Also history kind of chronicles aggregate human behavior, so it's at least a related discipline. I'm not saying he is knowledgeable, mind you, I just think you shouldn't pigeonhole people based on doing exactly what they studied. Because many people don't do exactly what they studied and are experts in it.