Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkDistraction through Fear – Yuval Noah Harari
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"The easiest way to grab people’s attention is to make them frightened. This is how we are built really as animals. So if you want to distract the public from issues like government corruption or like deteriorating health care system or deteriorating education system, the best thing is to find an external enemy that threatens the survival of the nation and immediately that gets all the attention and people forget about the other things"
Yuval Noah Harari
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkGovernment Criticism in Times of Crisis – Yuval Noah Harari
"In a situation when you feel threatened there is less room to criticize the government because then you are immediately labeled a traitor. Like this is war now. We’re in a national emergency. We all have to unite around the government and anybody who opposes that or criticizes the government is a traitor. [...] this is why very often even in a situation when there is no real threat leaders are manufacturing artificial threats."
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Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkSurveillance of the Future – Yuval Noah Harari
"Imagine North Korea in twenty years, when everyone must wear a biometric wristband that monitors your blood pressure, heart rate, and brain activity around the clock. You hear a speech from the great leader on the radio and they know what you really feel. You can clap your hands and smile, but if you are angry, they know you will be in the gulag tomorrow.
And if we allow the emergence of such total surveillance regimes, do not think that the rich and powerful will be safe in places like Davos."
Yuval Noah Harari
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkYuval Noah Harari Quote: Why Clarity Means Power in an Information Flood!
"In a world flooded with irrelevant information, clarity is power."
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Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkYuval Noah Harari Quote: The Shocking Truth About Our Future and the Power of the Elite
"Your future depends on the goodwill of a small elite. Maybe there is goodwill for a few decades. But in a time of crisis – like climate catastrophe – it would be very tempting, and easy, to toss you overboard."
Yuval Noah Harari
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkYuval Noah Harari on Digital Surveillance and the Future of Humanity
"I think maybe in a couple of decades when people look back, the thing they will remember from the Covid crisis is this is the moment when everything went digital and this was the moment when everything became monitored, that we agreed to be surveilled all the time, not just in authoritarian regimes, but even in democracies and maybe most importantly, this was the moment when surveillance started going under the skin, because really we haven’t seen anything yet. I think that the big process that’s happening right now, the world is hacking human beings, the ability to hack humans, to understand deeply what’s happening within you, what makes you go."
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Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkYuval Noah Harari on Science, Power, and Truth – The Harsh Reality of Research
"I mean science, as an institution, is interested in gaining the power — to gain control over the world — to be able to gain control over diseases, over the human body, over the environment, over rivers and animals and forests. You have to submit a grant to somebody to fund, it all comes down to money, in many cases. It’s also an institution- If you’re a freelance scientist, you just explore the truth. Okay. But in an institution, a university, you need money to finance so you submit a research grant, and you have to convince the authority not of the truth. You have to convince the authority that what you want to do will somehow make us more powerful. Will somehow enable us to produce a new weapon. Will somehow enable us to produce more food. Will somehow enable us to gain control over previously uncontrollable, or deadly disease. And this is really what gets the money. Of course, it means to also be truth to some extent. Does it work and who wants it?"
Yuval Noah Harari
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkYuval Noah Harari Quote: How Censorship Works in the Digital Age
"In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. [...] In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore."
Yuval Noah Harari
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkTerrorism and Climate Change – Yuval Noah Harari
"Terrorism kills a handful of people and you have all the governments and millions of people terrified from it. Climate change can kill not a handful of people but millions upon millions of people and we should place climate change far above terrorism in our list of problems."
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Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkYuval Noah Harari on Truth, Power, and Society – Revealing Insights!
"Truth was never the highest priority of human society. It was the highest priority of some individuals, but never of society as a whole — because society as a whole does not function on the basis of truth. If you take two of the most powerful institutions of humankind — science and the scientific community, and religion and churches — neither of them has truth as their chief value. For individuals, yes. But as institutions, no. The chief value of science is power. The chief value of religion is order — organization. Religion is all about maintaining order in society, and science is mainly about gaining power."
Yuval Noah Harari