Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
Tom PhillipsEn Eski Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up Sözleri ve Alıntıları
En Eski Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up sözleri ve alıntılarını, en eski Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up kitap alıntılarını, etkileyici sözleri 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.Natural Selection of Stupidity
How was our unique way of thinking allowed us to shape the world to our desires in incredible ways, but also to consistently make absolutely the worst possible choices despite it being very clear what bad ideas they are? In shor: How can we put a man on the moon and yet still send THAT text to our ex? It all boils down to the ways that our brains evolved.
The thing is that evolution, as a process, is not smart -but it is at least dumb in a very persistent way. All that matters to evolution is that you survive the thousand possible horrible deaths that lurk at every turn for just long enough to ensure that your genes make it through to the next generation. If you manage that, job done. If not, tough luck.
Biases
The problem here is that our brains are so into spotting patterns that they start seeing them all over the place -even where they don't exist. That's not a huge problem when it just means stuff like pointing at the stars in the night sky and going, "Ooh, look, it's a fox chasing a llama." But once the imaginary pattern you're seeing is something like "most crimes are committed by one particular ethnic group," it's...well, it's a really big problem.
Poor Boy
Osman made the crucial mistake of really annoying the elite unites of the Ottoman army, the Janisseries -bblaming them for a failure to win a battle he'd led, punishing them by closing their coffee shops and banning them for smoking or drinking, before finally planning to disband them altogether and raise an alternative army in Syria.
While Osman might have genuinely had a point about their military effectiveness, the Janisseries were, surprisingly, not entirely on board with this plan. So Osman II was given the distinction of becoming the first example of regicide in Ottoman history, killed by his own army through the intentive combination of strangulation and "compression of the testicles."
Executioner of the Coffee-Heads
Inheriting an empire that was in something of a state, he made up his mind to assert his authority. Hard. Deciding that his half brother Osman hadn't gone far enough with banning stuff just for the army, Murat banned smoking, drinking and especially coffee for everybody in the Ottoman Empire.
In a list of "movies designed to piss lots of people off," banning coffee in Turkey probably ranks somewhere alongside banning cheese in France, banning guns in America and...well, banning national stereotyping in Britain. But Murad was determined. He hated coffee drinkers so much that he would patrol the streets at night dressed in civilian clothes, looking for people drinking coffee and then executing them on the spot.
When not enforcing his strict anticoffee laws, he liked to wind down by executing people for literally any other reason he could think of: for playing the wrong kind of music, for talking too loudly, for walking or sailing too close to his palace or just for being women. Especially for being women. He really hated women.
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From Lucy, our first ancestor, who fell out of a tree and died, to General Zhou Shou of China, who stored gunpowder in his palace before a lantern festival, to the Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night, to the most spectacular fails of the present day, Humans reveals how even the most mundane mistakes can shift the course of civilization as we know it.
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3 200 000 BCE: Lucy falls out of a tree and dies. Humanity will repeat this pattern many times over the following 3.2 million years.