“Sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari and the Meaningless Path to Happiness

The second part of a review of this intriguing and much mistaken look at human history.

Photo by Goashape on Unsplash. Human happiness is the supreme good Harari accepts but there are only two ways he suggests it can be achieved: one, directly through biochemistry and two, by overcoming our desire for it.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari is a rollicking ride through the entire history of the human species beginning before Homo Sapiens. The first part of this review examined the contradictions, inconsistencies and…