Reading Harari's sapiens with method of adaptation

 

Y N Harari’s tunes are operating everywhere these days. His work and name also reached me. His works are in  the domain of history, thus I was reluctant to get hold of his book out of caution that the book would have less ideas and argument and more details which would not have pragmatic value to me.

 

Instead of Harari I was reading Anders Ericson, Rober Bjork et.al . I loved how Harari’s  book opened. It was not telling a long story to explain an idea, nor was it ravaged by strings of technical details with each forthcoming sentence in the manner of syllabus driven text book.

 

 

With access to good website which supply pirated books for good I have reached to an  idea hovering that most books in the West and the US are written keeping in university syllabus in mind, most with intention to sell.

 

And those books are condemned to sell, like we cannot deny to buy clothes or food. We are condemned to buy clothes however low grade. Even Donald Trump could not make naked great again.

 

 University students have no option to buy those books whose shape they would see more hours than to enjoy read. Stephan Krasen comes to mind. He says reading should be pleasurable. This is were idea of good creative  writing and idea of  knowledge should mix in a good way. Good creative writing dealing in myriad ideas ranging from mathematics to anthropology to C++ to Java to other programming language to history to philosophy and others   should have tremendous  creative ushering possibility. Publisher who are making huge easy money by getting syllabus driven books written have no impetus, it seems,  to explore the region of creative writing and wide-variety of knowledge. Siddhartha Mukherjee has written a well acclaimed book on gene and cancer, and the books have  sold in significant numbers a well.  

 

All plant and animals have scientific name going by the formula Genus species. Animal and plants who fall in same species can give birth to fertile off springs. Harari begins with definition of species. All humans fall in species: sapiens. Donkey and Horses are not from same species. Upon mating they give birth to mules. Harari points that mules are sterile. Another example by Harari: Bulldog and Spaniel look very different with the fact that they are from same species meaning same DNA pool. They mate, and give birth of offspring  which are fertile.