The Great Reset: And the War for the World by Alex Jones

Author:Alex Jones [Jones, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510774056
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2022-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

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In his next book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Harari provides more details on his preferred future. Part 1 is titled “Homo Sapiens Conquers the World,” and Part 2 is “Homo Sapiens Gives Meaning to the World,” essentially a recap of many of the points he made in Sapiens.

Part 3, “Homo Sapiens Loses Control,” is where Harari really gets going with his futuristic plans, in a chapter titled “The Time Bomb in the Laboratory.” (Now, you might be forgiven if you thought the chapter was about China and the United States experimenting with dangerous bat viruses and how one escaped, causing a worldwide pandemic and killing millions, but you’d be mistaken.) Instead, this is what Harari had to say:

In 2016 the world is dominated by the liberal package of individualism, human rights, democracy, and the free market. Yet twenty-first century science is undermining the foundations of the liberal order. Because science does not deal with questions of value, it cannot determine whether liberals are right in valuing liberty more than equality, or in valuing the individual more than the collective. However, like every other religion, liberalism too is based not only on abstract ethical judgments, but also on what it believes to be factual statements. And these factual statements just don’t stand up to rigorous scientific scrutiny.34

In Harari’s vision, if you like individualism, human rights, democracy, and the free market, you’re just a deluded fool. It’s all part of some “imagined order” rather than a system developed by brilliant, compassionate people over the centuries as the most effective way for us to live together in a manner that is conducive to the greatest good for the largest number of people. If you don’t believe Harari is interested in tearing down all these pillars of a civil society, I offer this passage:

To the best of our scientific understanding, determinism and randomness have divided the entire cake between them, leaving not even a crumb for ‘freedom.’ The sacred word ‘freedom’ turns out to be, just like ‘soul,’ a hollow term empty of any discernible meaning. Free will exists only in the imaginary stories we humans have invented.35

It staggers the mind that the person who wrote those words is not universally condemned by all the supposed lovers of freedom. One almost imagines they’re reading the words of a young Adolph Hitler or Joseph Stalin, rather than the writings of an Israeli academic. If there’s no such thing as free will, how could anybody ever be prosecuted for rape, murder, or any crime? This is a version of hell where nothing is forbidden, and all things are permitted.

After attacking liberalism all through the chapter, even equating medieval crusaders and today’s liberals as similarly delusional, Harari lays it out:

However, once the heretical scientific insights are translated into everyday technology, routine activities and economic structures, it will become increasingly difficult to sustain this double-game [believing in science and free will]—and we—or our heirs—will probably require a brand-new package of religious beliefs and political institutions.

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