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Sapiens is one of the most interesting books I have ever read. It helped my think about why I believe what I do, and deconstruct. The book compares the lives of humans of current and past, and how we should measure. Harari talks about the inherent contradictions in what we believe and the way that religion and values have evolved. The book also explains the general direction history has taken, and how the future of humanity may go. It is a little too liberal (in the John Stuart Mill sense, the sort that Mao wrote disparagingly of in Combat Liberalism), and dismisses Marxism as an decent way to understand history as a “religion,” and doesn’t even consider socialism as a viable way forward, however it was overall not too bad.