{"id":262475,"date":"2022-12-17T07:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T07:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262475"},"modified":"2023-07-09T20:57:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:57:30","slug":"noted-transhumanist-now-targeting-our-children-whats-inside-yuval-noah-hararis-new-book-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262475","title":{"rendered":"Noted transhumanist now targeting our children: What\u2019s inside Yuval Noah Harari\u2019s new book for kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Leohohmann.com \u2013 Dec 15, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Deborah DeGroff is an author and expert on children\u2019s books, which she analyzes from a biblical perspective. In her <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsinsidechildrensbooks.com\/articles\/unstoppable-us-how-humans-took-over-the-world-the-gospel-of-harari-for-children\/\">latest article<\/a><\/strong>, she peels back the layers of deception in a new book by noted globalist, futurist and transhumanist Yuval Noah Harari.<\/p>\n<p>Some have described Harari, a gifted storyteller, as one of the world\u2019s most <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/2022\/07\/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari\">dangerous men<\/a><\/strong>. He serves as one of Klaus Schwab\u2019s top advisers at the World Economic Forum, has written many books and is a sought-after speaker not only at the WEF but on college campuses worldwide. He has stated that he believes humans are \u201chackable animals\u201d devoid of a free will or a soul and that because we accepted mass surveillance during the Covid lockdowns, it\u2019s just a matter of time before we accept the next step in a coming global technocracy \u2014 placing that surveillance \u201cunder the skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Harari makes it quite clear what kind of god he will worship (see video below).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qopZvT_X88E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>But with a brand-new book hitting the bookstores, this marks Harari\u2019s first attempt to get at our children. The book, targeting 10 to 14-year-olds, is being heavily marketed and will be the first in a four-part series, so the chances your child or grandchild will come in contact with it at some point are pretty high.<\/p>\n<p>Here is DeGroff\u2019s penetrating look at one of the world\u2019s most dangerous men and how he\u2019s working to get access to the minds of our most vulnerable and impressionable \u2013 our children.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsinsidechildrensbooks.com\/articles\/unstoppable-us-how-humans-took-over-the-world-the-gospel-of-harari-for-children\/\">By Deborah DeGroff<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Who is Yuval Noah Harari and why has he become so influential? What is his message? Does his heavily-marketed new book for children echo the same sentiments he so adamantly feeds his adult audiences?<\/p>\n<p>Professor Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of\u00a0<em>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind<\/em>, <em>Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow<\/em>, <em>21 Lessons for the 21st Century<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Sapiens: A Graphic History<\/em>. His books have sold over 40 million copies in 65 languages, and he is considered one of the world\u2019s most influential public intellectuals today. [Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynharari.com\/about\/\">here<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynharari.com\/about\/\">\u00a0<\/a>to read the complete bio on Harari\u2019s website.]<\/p>\n<p>Harari was a keynote speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in both 2018 and 2020. His speeches and interviews on various media platforms are watched by millions.<\/p>\n<p>Harari is not shy about stating his beliefs. In a nutshell, in Harari\u2019s gospel there is no God, no soul, and no freewill. Once these pillars are accepted as truth by his followers\u2014many of whom are in positions of power\u2014the next step will be deciding the fate of billions of people who are no longer necessary in a future world that consists of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and transhumanism.<\/p>\n<p>Harari\u2019s book,\u00a0<em>Sapiens<\/em>,\u00a0was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bill-gates-mark-zuckerberg-and-barack-obama-recommend-this-book-2017-6\"><strong>endorsed by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Barak Obama.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Carbone wrote the article,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/humans-merge-with-machines\">\u201cHumans Will Eventually Merge With Machines, Professor Says,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0for Fox News in July 2019, stating:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s increasingly hard to tell where I end and where the computer begins,\u201d\u00a0Harari, a professor of history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, told the audience at the Fast Company European Innovation Festival. \u201cIn the future, it is likely that the smartphone will not be separated from you at all. It may be embedded in your body or brain, constantly scanning your biometric data and your emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harari continued: \u201cIf we told our ancestors in the Stone Age about our lives today, they would think we are already Gods. But the truth is that even though we have developed more sophisticated tools, we are the same animals. We have the same emotions, the same minds. The coming revolution will change that. It will change not just our tools, it will change the human being itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his speech at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Harari informed his audience that automation will soon eliminate millions upon millions of jobs (creating a large class of \u201cuseless people\u201d). Harari stated:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Old jobs will disappear, new jobs will emerge, but then the new jobs will rapidly change and vanish. Whereas in the past humans had to struggle against exploitation, in the 21st century the really big struggle will be against irrelevance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>And it is much worse to be irrelevant than exploited.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Those who fail in the struggle against irrelevance would constitute a new \u201cuseless class\u201d \u2013 people who are useless not from the viewpoint of their friends and family, but useless from the viewpoint of the economic and political system.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>. . . And what will happen to politics in your country in twenty years, when somebody in San Francisco or Beijing knows the entire medical and personal history of every politician, every judge and every journalist in your country, including all their sexual escapades, all their mental weaknesses and all their corrupt dealings? Will it still be an independent country or will it become a data-colony?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>When you have enough data you don\u2019t need to send soldiers, in order to control a country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>. . . If you know enough biology and have enough computing power and data, you can hack my body and my brain and my life, and you can understand me better than I understand myself. . . . You know more about me than I know about myself. And you can do that not just to me, but to everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>A system that understands us better than we understand ourselves can predict our feelings and decisions, can manipulate our feelings and decisions, and can ultimately make decisions for us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>. . . But soon at least some corporations and governments will be able to systematically hack all the people. We humans should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls \u2013 we are now hackable animals. That\u2019s what we are.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>. . . In the coming decades, AI and biotechnology will give us godlike abilities to reengineer life, and even to create completely new life-forms. After four billion years of organic life shaped by natural selection, we are about to enter a new era of inorganic life shaped by intelligent design.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Our intelligent design is going to be the new driving force of the evolution of life. . .<\/em> \u00a0[Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/01\/yuval-hararis-warning-davos-speech-future-predications\/\"><strong>here\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>to read the speech]<\/p>\n<p>Chris Anderson, head of TED media, interviewed Harari in August 2022. Anderson commented that Harari strongly recommends meditation. Harari responded that he meditates for two hours each day and that he does the Vipassana meditation, which he learned from S.N. Goenka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd . . . my yearly vacation is to go on a long retreat of between say 30 days and 60 days. I just came back last month from a 60-day meditation retreat,\u201d Harari says. [Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w7DohVZS5Yo\"><strong>here<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>to listen, starting at 45:20.]<\/p>\n<p>During this interview, Harari tells Anderson he isn\u2019t against technology as it \u201ccan bring enormous benefits to humanity as a whole.\u201d He continues that he \u201cmet [his] husband online in one of the first dating sites for LGBT people in Israel in the early 2000s.\u201d [Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w7DohVZS5Yo\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to listen. This begins at 40:29.]<\/p>\n<p>Yuval Noah Harari holds great influence with many people in positions of power. Up until recently, this audience has consisted of adults.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, Harari is introducing his message to children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Autumn 2022 saw Harari venturing into the world of children\u2019s books, with the pre-teen series\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynharari.com\/about\/\"><em><strong>Unstoppable Us<\/strong><\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0Here, he tells the unbelievable true story of humans \u2013 our all-conquering and insatiable species \u2013 in a way that is accessible to kids. The series will be published in four volumes, featuring full-color illustrations, starting with <em>Unstoppable Us<\/em>, <em>Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Harari includes a Timeline of History at the beginning of\u00a0<em>Unstoppable Us<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PART 1, HISTORY OF HUMANITY<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>He begins with 6 million years ago with a picture of an upright creature that is a cross between a human and an ape. The caption reads that this was the \u201clast common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He follows with a jump to the 2.5 million years ago mark in which he states that \u201cHumans evolve in Africa.\u201d The Gospel of Harari moves forward another half-million years with the \u201c[e]volution of different kinds of humans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By 400,000 years ago, \u201cNeanderthals evolve in Europe and the Middle East\u201d and 300,000 years ago, \u201cSapiens evolve in Africa.\u201d 70,000 years ago, \u201cthe Sapiens leave Africa in large numbers.\u201d 35,000 years ago the Neanderthals are extinct and \u201cSapiens are the last surviving kind of human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlanet Earth was once ruled by many different animals . . . But now we humans rule everything: the land, the sea, and the sky. . . . The only reason lions, dolphins, and eagles still exist is because we allow them to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concludes this introduction with, \u201cAND it\u2019s a true story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 1 teaches the children that millions of years ago, we were just ordinary animals who ate worms and climbed trees to pick fruit. Until humans learned to make tools, the other animals weren\u2019t afraid of them.<\/p>\n<p>Harari explains that when kids wake up in the night frightened that there are monsters under their beds that this is simply \u201ca memory from millions of years ago . . . [when] monsters . . . sneaked up on children in the night.\u201d His example is of a lion coming to eat the child. This idea is repeated in the closing of his book.<\/p>\n<p>Next, the humans invented fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA single weak human with a fire stick could burn down an entire forest in a matter of hours, destroying thousands of trees and killing thousands of animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, the humans could cook their food. As a result, \u201chumans started to change: they had smaller teeth, smaller stomachs . . . and much more free time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harari expands on this by stating that some scientists \u201csuggest it was cooking that made it possible for the human brain to start growing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once they started cooking . . . humans could spend far less energy chewing and digesting and had more energy to feed big brains. Their stomachs shrank, their brains grew, and people got smarter.<\/p>\n<p>In the next chapter, the children learn that \u201cour planet was actually home to many different kinds of humans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harari introduces the Floresians and follows with the \u201cbigger-brained\u201d Neanderthals, and the Denisovans. However, according to him, the Sapiens eventually killed off all of these \u201cancestors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c. . . when the new super-Sapiens reached Europe, they picked all\u00a0the pears, ate all the berries, and hunted all the deer. This meant that the local Neanderthals had nothing left to eat, so they died of hunger. And if any Neanderthals tried to stop the Sapiens from taking all the food, the Sapiens probably killed them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen our ancestors went to Siberia and took all the food from the Denisovans. And then they went to Flores, and . . . soon there wasn\u2019t a single small human or small elephant to be found. And when all the other humans were gone, our ancestors still weren\u2019t satisfied. Although they were now incredibly powerful, they wanted even more power and more food, so they sometimes fought one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next chapter begins with, \u201cYou see, we Sapiens are not very nice animals.\u201d Often, he concludes, this is due to different skin colors, languages, or religions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut a few years ago, scientists discovered that at least some of our Sapiens ancestors didn\u2019t kill or starve all the other humans they met.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harari explains that because of our knowledge of DNA, scientists have determined that some Neanderthals had children with Sapiens.\u00a0I guess Harari\u00a0intends for these middle-grade students to conclude that some people today are not 100% evil since they have some Neanderthal DNA . . .<\/p>\n<p>Harari then speculates as to what the world would be like today if \u201cour ancestors had been nicer and had allowed the Neanderthals and the Floresians to go on living and developing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PART 2: GOD IS JUST A FAIRY TALE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In Part 2 of the book, Harari\u2019s explains why and how Sapiens ended up ruling the world. He says cooperation is what makes us so powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Harari then poses the question:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did our ancestors learn to cooperate in large numbers in the first place, and how come we can constantly change our behavior?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It\u2019s] our ability to dream up stuff that isn\u2019t really there and to tell all kinds of imaginary stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf thousands of people believe in the same story, then they\u2019ll all follow the same rules, which means they can cooperate effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s say a Sapiens tells everyone this story: \u201cThere\u2019s a Great Lion Spirit that lives above the clouds. If you obey the Great Lion Spirit, then when you die, you\u2019ll go the land of the spirits, and you\u2019ll have all the bananas you can eat. But if you disobey the Great Lion Spirit, a big lion will come and eat you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, this story isn\u2019t true at all. But if a thousand people believe it, they\u2019ll all start doing whatever the story tells them to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He expands on this\u2014just in case it\u00a0went over any of the kids\u2019 heads. \u201cIf you say, \u2018The Great Lion Spirit wants everyone to give a banana to the priest in the temple, and in return, when they die, they\u2019ll receive lots and lots of bananas in the land of the spirits,\u2019 then a thousand people will bring bananas to the priest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could never persuade a chimpanzee to give you a banana by promising him that when he dies, he\u2019ll go to chimpanzee heaven and have all the bananas he can eat . . . only Sapiens believe stories like that. And that\u2019s why we rule the world, whereas poor chimps are locked up in zoos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome go fight people on the other side of the world because they believe that a god told them to. Others give lots of money to construct a big building because they believe that a god wants it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harari next informs the kids about \u201cone of the most interesting games grown-ups play . . . called \u2018corporation.\u2019\u201d He uses McDonald\u2019s Corporation as an illustration and informs the children that although you can go to the restaurants or talk to the employees, what they see is not McDonald\u2019s as \u201cit exists only in our imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c. . . If you want to open a restaurant but you don\u2019t want to risk losing your socks or going to jail, you create a corporation. And then the corporation does everything and takes all the risks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe corporation borrows money from the bank, and if it can\u2019t repay the money, nobody can blame you for it, and nobody can take your house or your socks. After all, the bank gave the money to the corporation, not to you. And if somebody eats a burger and gets a really nasty stomachache, nobody can hold you responsible. You didn\u2019t make that burger\u2014the corporation did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, money is also just another imaginary story that grown-ups believe. [Bankers and politicians] tell stories like \u201cThis small piece of paper is worth ten bananas,\u201d and the grown-ups believe them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c. . . humans can quickly change the way we behave by simply changing the stories we believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harari then uses France to illustrate the next point he wants to make:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople believed that a great god above the clouds said that France must be ruled by a king and that all French people must do whatever the king commanded. . . . But as long as French people believed this story, they obeyed their king.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He follows with a story about a king\u2019s daughter that wanted to rule France.\u00a0\u201cYou can\u2019t rule France,\u201d they said, \u201cbecause the great god above the clouds doesn\u2019t like girls very much. The great god above the clouds is a boy, so he made boys much smarter and braver than girls. So a girl can\u2019t rule the kingdom of France. Only boys can.\u201d\u00a0And because people believed the story, they wouldn\u2019t let girls become rulers. In fact, they wouldn\u2019t let them do all sorts of things: . . .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there are two important things to remember: people need stories in order to cooperate, and they can change the way they cooperate by changing the stories they believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On page 72, Harari suggests that someone \u201cmight have told them stories\u201d such as:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Great Lion Spirit wants us to get rid of the Neanderthals . . . [they] are very strong, but don\u2019t worry. Even if a Neanderthal kills you, that\u2019s actually a good thing because you\u2019ll go to the land of the spirits above the clouds, where the Great Lion Spirit will welcome you and give you lots of blueberries and giraffe steaks to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd people believed the story, so they cooperated to get rid of the Neanderthals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c. . . This belief in stories gave our ancestors so much power that they spread all over the world, conquering every land on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HARARI\u2019S CORRUPTED VIEW OF THE FAMILY<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Harari, who is married to a man, also weighs in on families:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNowadays, some people have one partner for their entire life, some have many partners, and some remain single. In a few countries, one man can be married to several women at the same time. In other countries, two women can get married to each other, and so can two men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBonobo (chimpanzee) girls don\u2019t dream about marrying a handsome prince\u2014they\u2019d usually prefer a cool girlfriend!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harari then speculates about the types of families there may have been in Stone Age times:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c. . . In the fourth hut, one woman, her three children, and her current girlfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, maybe it was like that . . . and maybe not. It\u2019s easy to imagine different possibilities, but scientists need to distinguish imagination from fact. . . . you need evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c. . . one tribe might have believed that after you died, you came back as a new baby, or perhaps even as an animal. Maybe a second tribe believed that when you died, you became a ghost. A third tribe may have thought that these two theories were a load of nonsense \u2013 when you died, you were gone, and that was that.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HARARI ON HUMANITY: \u2018The deadliest animals on earth\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201c. . . There is one thing, though, we are certain our ancestors did, and it\u2019s something we know a lot about: they caused most of the world\u2019s big animals to disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c. . . the ancient ancestors of whales were land animals that were no bigger than a large dog. Around 50 million years ago, some of these doglike animals started spending part of their time in rivers and lakes, hunting fish and other small creatures. . . .\u00a0they spent more and more of their time in rivers, rarely venturing onto land. Their feet, which they no longer needed for walking, evolved into flippers. Their tails also changed to better help them with swimming.\u00a0Eventually, these animals swam out to sea: completely abandoning land, they spent their whole lives deep in the ocean. And their bodies adapted, growing enormous, until they became whales.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this process took millions and millions of years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoon after Sapiens reached Australia, all these huge animals became extinct\u2014and many small animals did too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did they suddenly disappear exactly when the first humans arrived? Let\u2019s be honest and accept the truth: the most plausible explanation is that the Sapiens caused the extinction of all these animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c. . . They didn\u2019t have guns and bombs. . . . But they did have three big advantages: cooperation, the element of surprise, and the ability to control fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir first advantage was that they could tell stories that brought many people together. . . . If people in one band developed a new trick to hunt diprotodons, they could quickly teach their trick to all the other bands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c. . . The truth is that humans were already the deadliest animals on earth.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing about bad habits is that it\u2019s so hard to get rid of them. They tend to stay with you wherever you go. . . . Wiping out so many of Australia\u2019s animals was the first big thing they did. The second big thing was to wipe out animals in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy were our ancestors so cruel? Why did they completely wipe out the mammoths?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing is, they probably didn\u2019t mean to do it. They were just hungry, and their children were hungry, and they hunted a few mammoths every year because they needed something to eat. They didn\u2019t know the effect this would have over many, many years. We often do very impactful things without realizing what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c. . . But over time, the tiny changes accumulate and become very big changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem with Sapiens wasn\u2019t that they were evil; the problem was that they were too good at what they did. When\u00a0they started hunting mammoths, they became so good at it that no mammoths survived. So they went on to hunt elk. But they were very good at that too, and very soon the elk also started to disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo step 1: lots of animals, no Sapiens. Step 2: Sapiens appear. Step 3: lots of Sapiens, no animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE GUILTY ONES MUST MAKE REPARATIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Harari then lets the kids know that although our ancestors didn\u2019t realize the impact of what they were doing, we do. We have no excuse and are responsible for the future of all animals. He challenges these\u00a010- to 14-year-old children to become activists and tells them it doesn\u2019t matter how young they are. They can take care of this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember, even as a kid, you\u2019re already more powerful than any lion or whale!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c. . . One whale weighs as much as 5,000 kids. And yet whales can\u2019t protect themselves against humans because humans have learned to tell stories and cooperate in very sophisticated ways, which whales can\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the corporations hunted more and more whales, and made more and more money. Fifty years ago, blue whales almost disappeared . . . Luckily, some humans noticed what was happening and decided to save the whales. Being humans themselves, they understood what money is and how corporations work, so they knew what to do. They wrote letters to newspapers, they signed petitions to politicians, and they organized demonstrations. They told people not to buy products from corporations that hunted whales, and they asked governments to forbid whaling. Many of the people who did all this were kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c. . . So that\u2019s how we humans became the rulers of planet Earth. And how we came to hold the fate of all other animals in our hands. Even before humans built the first city, invented the wheel, and learned how to write, we had already spread all over the world and killed about half of all large land animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c. . . And you know that if you invent a good story that enough people believe, you can conquer the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">******<\/p>\n<p>Has Yuval Noah Harari invented a good enough story?<\/p>\n<p>This book is being heavily marketed. Harari is giving many interviews about\u00a0<em>Unstoppable Us<\/em>. Will his gospel message change the worldview of our children?\u00a0Throughout his book, he talks about made-up good stories that influence people enough to change the world, and yet he declares that his story is the\u00a0true\u00a0one. In other words, he wants his readers or listeners to believe\u00a0his\u00a0story and act accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>This book is just the first of four volumes. The next volume will be about the Agriculture Revolution. Line upon line; precept upon precept. Each book will build upon the foundation laid in the previous volume. The Gospel of Harari has already convinced at least some of his audience that God is just a made-up story to make people obedient or cooperative. Which of his well-documented ideas will he introduce next? That humans have no soul and no free will?<\/p>\n<p>Will the powers-that-be decide to keep the useless eaters around by giving them a universal income and keeping them entertained in the MetaVerse? Or, will there be mass genocide? Who is going to argue for human rights if people have no souls or freewill? What would it matter?<\/p>\n<p>Often, I hear parents tell me that their children know better. I hope they are right. Maybe they do attend church every time the doors are open, but who is teaching them and what are they learning? Do you know? Are they being taught or entertained? If they are in a government school, sadly, they have already absorbed much of Harari\u2019s message.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what\u2019s between the covers of the books your children are reading?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>To get a copy of Deborah DeGroff\u2019s book, Between the Covers: What\u2019s Inside A Children\u2019s Book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsinsidechildrensbooks.com\/about-the-book\/\">visit her website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>LeoHohmann.com is 100 percent reader supported, bringing you news and analysis you won\u2019t find elsewhere. If you would like to help support my work, please consider making a donation, which can be sent c\/o Leo Hohmann, PO Box 291, Newnan, GA 30264, or via credit card through GiveSendGo by clicking below. Thanks!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.givesendgo.com\/LeoHohmann\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-175417 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/donate-pp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leohohmann.com\/2022\/12\/15\/noted-transhumanist-now-targeting-our-children-whats-inside-yuval-noah-hararis-new-book-for-kids\/#more-12312\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it a \u2018gut instinct\u2019 but we can\u2019t help feeling that Yual Harari is a sinister character. 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