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    The document provides an overview and analysis of the book "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" by Yuval Noah Harari. It discusses how the book examines major issues facing the world today through a series of lessons, with chapters addressing topics like technology, politics, religion, and art. It also analyzes how the book discusses the rising sense of disorientation and loss of meaning many feel, as well as questioning the continued viability of liberalism as the dominant ideology for global order in the 21st century.

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    The document provides an overview and analysis of the book "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" by Yuval Noah Harari. It discusses how the book examines major issues facing the world today through a series of lessons, with chapters addressing topics like technology, politics, religion, and art. It also analyzes how the book discusses the rising sense of disorientation and loss of meaning many feel, as well as questioning the continued viability of liberalism as the dominant ideology for global order in the 21st century.

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    21 LESSONS FOR THE

    21 CENTURY
    ST
    Introduction
    ◦ In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.
    ◦ This is not historical book, but a selection of lessons.
    ◦ It stimulates thinking.
    ◦ Chapters are written in response to questions.
    ◦ Some sections focus on technology, some on politics, some on religion, and some on art.
    ◦ Human wisdom and stupidity are highlighted.
    Parts of the Book
    ◦ 1- Highlighting threats and danger.
    ◦ A wide range of potential responses.
    ◦ Humankind can rise to the occasion if we keep our fears under control
    ◦ 4th part deals with notion of post truth
    ◦ 5th part discusses with more general look at life in the age of bewilderment.
    Disillusionment
    ◦ Fascism, communism and liberalism were the three stories formulated in 20 th century
    by the global elites to predict the future of the entire world.
    ◦ We need to protect human rights, to grant everybody the vote, to establish free
    markets, and to let individuals, ideas and goods move throughout the world as easily
    as possible.
    ◦ The sense of disorientation has been heightened with the accelerating pace of
    technological disruption.
    ◦ Technology, AI, is replacing currency and a country’s finance.
    ◦ W know how to kill the mosquitoes; but if a thought buzzed in our mind and kept us
    awake at night, most of us didn’t know how to kill the thought..
    ◦ Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely.
    ◦ Infotech and biotech will manipulate our inner world.
    ◦ In 2018 the common person feels increasingly irrelevant.
    ◦ The liberal story was the story of ordinary people.
    ◦ It is much harder to struggle against irrelevance than against exploitation.
    The Liberal Phoenix
    ◦ The first era of globalization and liberalization ended in the bloodbath of the first World War.
    ◦ During Hitler moment, in the 1930s, fascism seemed irresistible.
    ◦ During the Che Guevara moment, between the 1950s and the 1970s, it again lost its hold. However, in
    the end, communism collapsed.
    ◦ Liberalism included the values of empathy and equality from communism.
    ◦ Trump’s message is that it’s not America’s job to formulate and promote any global vision.
    ◦ Russia is forceful rival of global liberal order.
    ◦ Media prevents citizens from realizing the truth.

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