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Customer Review
- Reviewed in Canada on November 7, 2018The sheer magnitude of history, anthropology, biology, science and politics covered in this book and still captivate and enthrall was amazing. I really enjoyed how easy this book was to read and how this author was to able evoke multitude of emotions like disgust and fascination. This writing however is biased.....the description of animal cruelty from agriculture highlighted some very disturbing practices. However, there are many farms in Canada where animals spend most of their lives where they are treated very well...at least up until they are sold to feedlots. When he describes empires, he chooses to ignore the cruelty and the destruction caused by them, admiring them instead for their achievements in art, science education and literature etc. He also fails to target the corporate entities and the real economic rulers of the world for their role in creating wars, ecological destruction, mass misleading propaganda and harsh, inhumane systems of government and justice. I have learned a lot from this book. His idea that we are storytellers and our ability to believe in things we have not seen..to believe in make believe, allows us to cooperate in groups of millions. This concept explains a lot of the craziness of our world and somehow this rings true to me. This book is worthwhile reading, if only to understand the how there can be so much cruelty in our world. I would have given it 5 stars, had I felt the information was truly accurate and balanced.
