Author of quotes: Sapiens. Page 2

From ancient times to the present day, everyone knows: the clerks and accountants do not think like human beings. They have a brain instead of archival cupboard with sections and drawers.

Of all human activities difficult to organize violence.

No, it's not that we domesticated wheat. Is she domesticated us.

Huge masses of strangers to each other people are able to successful cooperation, if they share the myth.

The last known Neanderthals (those whose bones have been found) lived in the South of Spain, about 30 thousand years ago. In the framework of evolution it can be said, yesterday.

Humanity - not a pack of wolves, suddenly in possession of tanks and atomic bombs, but rather that we - the herd of sheep, which, by a strange whim of evolution, have learned to make and use tanks and missiles. And armed sheep are far more dangerous than armed wolves.

What could be more dangerous than a disillusioned, irresponsible gods did not realize what they want?

A hundred thousand years ago on Earth there lived six types of man. Today there is only one. We. Homo sapiens. The owners of this planet.

Try to imagine what would have changed history, if the Neanderthals continued to live side by side with Homo sapiens. What culture, what society, what political structure would develop in a world where coexist different human types? Like, for example, evolved religion? Would proclaim the Book of Genesis Neanderthals descended from Adam and eve would have died the Christ in atonement for the sins of the Neanderthal, would provide the Quran of a place in heaven for all the righteous, regardless of type? Could the Neanderthals to serve in the Roman legions, in a highly developed bureaucracy of China? Proclaimed the American Declaration of independence as self-evident truth: "all members of the genus Homo are created equal"? Would Karl Marx to unite the proletarians of all human types?

Those ancient people were able to play and love, between them formed a strong relationship, they fought for power and status - but so well behaved and chimpanzees, baboons, and elephants. Humans are no different from animals. No, first and foremost, the people themselves, could not foresee that their descendants will walk on the moon, split the atom, solve the genetic code and create a chronicle

We run the world because no other animal is able to believe in something that exists only in the imagination of the gods, the state, money, or human rights.
The man is a serial killer of the environment: even with instruments of the stone age, our ancestors exterminated half of the living land mammals.
Capitalism - economic theory, and the most successful of all modern religions.
Money is the most comprehensive and diversified system of mutual trust ever devised. It's the only thing trusted by all.
Individualism nurtured by States and markets, as a way of destroying the family institution and communities.
We have become much more powerful than their ancestors, but not happier.
People will soon disappear. Using the latest technology for possibly several decades, he would transform herself into a completely different creature.

Money is the only manmade system of trust, which throws a bridge over any abyss and does not involve discrimination on religious or gender on the basis of race, age or sexual orientation. Thanks to the money people, who know each other do not know and have no reason to trust each other can cooperate efficiently.

The total money supply in the world in 2006 was $473 trillion, but the share of coins and banknotes accounts for at least $47 trillion. More than 90% of all the money - more than $ 400 trillion in the accounts - exists only on computer servers. For large payments nobody uses Bank notes or coins. Only a member of a criminal gang buys a house with the suitcase of banknotes.

Money was invented many times independently in different parts of the world. In itself, this invention does not require technological innovation, this is pure intellectual breakthrough.