It is extremely hard to discover the truth when you are ruling the world. You are just far too busy. - Yuval Noah Harari

If you want to make people believe in imaginary entities such as gods and nations, you should make them sacrifice something valuable.

Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis – they are nothing but the perpetuation of chance events supported by myths.

In the early twenty-first century, perhaps the most important artistic genre is science fiction. Very few people read the latest articles in the fields of machine learning or genetic engineering. Instead, movies such as The Matrix and Her and TV series such as Westworld and Black Mirror shape how people understand the most important technological, social and economic developments of our time.