Yuval Noah Harari: On The Myths We Need To Survive, at the Royal Geographical Society

Speaking at the Royal Geographical Society, Yuval Noah Harari will be dissecting the assumptions and grounding myths that make up any society, including our own. On September the 23rd the historian and author of hugely popular Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, will challenge our ways of looking at our own cultures, chaired by the University of Warwick Classicist Michael Scott.
Harari’s way of looking at the world is clear: in order to huge numbers of people to co-operate in a system as large as a society, they must share an image of the rules of that society, even more basic than their society’s laws. Ancient Babylon’s political system, says Harari, was made stable by its reliance on hierarchy, made possible by the culture’s mythology of hierarchy.
Our collective fictions –about ourselves, our rights, and our interactions – allow us to inhabit stable, complex, highly populated worlds.\
This will be a fascinating evening. Book now.