criticizing :- yuval noah harari
DEBATE #21 century #critcizing
Recently I was reading several books on polity, Economy, human behavior, and on other genre and where I found that all the occidental narrators either we take a George Orwell, Mark Twain or contemporary one like Yuval Noah Harari, falls shorts when they try to address the nature of society. For instance when Yuval bhai talks in his 21 solutions for the 21 century, in the first few chapters you would find that all the decision-making process is done only by the biochemical process, similarly you would find the same gest that there is nothing like a society in real, instead, all the people are bound for their own greed and it is fulfilled by the mass gathering at the very place.
Does it so?
Is the biochemical process is responsible for praying god? and if it so then how it is possible that the biochemical secreted from the praying gods bring the fortunes, Wealth, prosperity, Is biochemical process is smart enough, that it can create optimistic opportunity throughout individual life and make human life more sustainable. If we carry forward this argument, it is not possible that, rather than humans, any other species may be more advanced as the so-called all the biochemical processes were/are continuous throughout history. To concrete my arguments I would pen down the example of neanderthal, it is believed that they were smarter than the Homosapien’s which means the production of the biochemicals that are needed to forms the societies may be more, and according to Charles darwin strongest can survive to tell the tale in that context how it can be possible that more societus species having one of the best combinations of the biochemicals had to extinct?
What is more that, in his books, he is arguing that the technology would ask a human to be more skillful otherwise they will be outdated but you would find the notion that humankind would completely depend on the technology. Here my argument is that, for what? they would ask for the help of technology only for his materialistic desire but at the end of the day does materialistic desire even matter? You would find many great yogis, nagas, saints who do not depend on technology even they do not believe in any kind of societies philosophies (Socialism, marxism, liberalization) as most of them are solitaire but the punch fact is that they believe in humanity, in pity. does technology can replace this base peer of the social formation.
Let’s do one thought experiment.
There is Ramesh Bhai. He is from the lower middle class by wealth but rich by heart. He is well known in his neighborhood for his charity work for the needy one. If he finds a needy one, he also can donate money to the needy one even by borrowing money with interest. (This is in real practice in India still today!) Now the question arises that according to the rule book of Yuval Bhai that person first accomplishes his desire than if it is possible he would work for others and accordingly Ramesh bhai’s biochemical process would hinder him to donate the money in such circumstances. And obviously, decision-making technology would not suggest such a kind of decision that can materially harm their owner.