" At the close of the 20th century it appeared that the great ideological battles between facism, communism, and liberalism resulted in the overwhelming victory of liberalism. Democratic politics, human rights and free market capitalism seemed destined to conquer the entire world. But as usual , history took an unexpected turn, and after facism and communism collapsed, now liberalism is in a jam. So where are we heading?
The question is particularly poignant, but liberalism is loosing credibility exactly when the twin revolutions of information technology and biotechnology confront us with the biggest challenges our species has ever encountered. THE merger of infotech and biotech might soon push billions of of humans out of the job market and undermine both liberty and equality.
(21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Harari 2018 page xii)
BEWILDERMENT.
This is life in the age of bewilderment when old stories have collapsed, and no new story has emerged so far to replace them. Who are we? What should we do in life? What kind of skills do we need? Given everything we know and don' t know about science , about God , about politics and about religion_- what can we say is the meaning of life today?
(21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Harari 2018 page xiii)
