Yuval  Noah Harari was on Amanpour & Co promoting his new book Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. The conversation raised several interesting concerns. The dominate theme of the interview was that we are killing ourselves. Agreed.

Ecofeminist Carolyn Merchant in her book of The Death of Nature made the case indirectly we are killing ourselves, in my opinion, when she exposed the cruelty of Sir Isaac Newton, the father of science; how he was passionate about conquering and abusing Nature. The Scientific Method as developed by Newton cared little about harming Nature and everything to do with conquering Her in any way necessary.

I have a previous post on Merchant's book and how science is about domination, Solar Geoengineering--Another Wacky Concept to our Environmental Crisis by Dominating Mother Earth

While I look forward to reading Hariri's book what caught my attention, why I made this post, begins about  9:45 in when he starts talking about how the advent of the printing press spurred witch hunts and other violent acts to vilify and demonize the"other." I also feel this comment speak to religion. Sad.

PS Unfortunately we continue to demonize and marginalize witches is baked into the psyche of many.