Yuval Noah Harari on happiness and Aldous Huxley

Yuval Noah Harari interviewed by Lasse Biørnstad in Oslo, March 15. 2016.

[@asadfami7623]

Brilliant.

[@amphibianblue]

You know all Harari👏👏👏👏

[@julzee111]

Lol

[@Ashlanmilo9814]

Are you bend over for him?

[@silberlinie]

Yes, it seems to be so, Yuval, happiness is decoupled from the state of wealth and abundance of power. What comes to mind is: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

[@KittSpiken]

That's not where he's driving

[@genevievecaldwell213]

BNW is my favorite book but Aldous Huxley isn't an author I'm fond of. He created a beautiful, almost perfect world and then depicted it as corrupt and degenerated dystopia - which was totally out of place. Not to mention, that he used a violent, crazy savage religious man as an epitome of rightness and morality - such irony there! XD I really don't think Huxley's criticism of his envisioned utopia was on point. I'd say he is just a prime example of how people have to ruin everything positive, find bad things evrywhere and focus primarily on the negatives. Happiness is the key and goal to a better future and it's clear that in order to achieve it, we have to make some hard decisions - but they will be worth it in the end for sure. And unlike Huxley shows, happiness can't be fake - it's a chemical process in the brain that's triggered by some experience. Happiness is simply happiness. BNW is a maganificent world that we should strive toward in the future!

[@gorgzilla1712]

Kind of a weird definition of “happiness” you have there….

[@Jaapst]

@@gorgzilla1712 Its a weird viewpoint but I get it in a way. Now we are dopamine hooked internet consuming maybe even drug using zombies constantly stimulating our brain with information and impulses. Do you sure we dont live in a kind of brave new world already? Its possible that we have in the future an AI chip in our brains which would constantly give our brain impulses and would stimulate hormones like serotonine dopamine etc. Making us yes controllable collective zombies but are we not already quite there yet.. Still Brave New World is a dystopia in my eyes. Every utopia is a dystopia because Humans are IMPERFECT and cannot be made perfect in some way. Communists tried it maybe maybe if transhumanism it can work this time for the elite. I dont know man I liked the world of even ten years ago much much more then now. Its already a dystopia I dont like this direction.

[@KittSpiken]

Huxley was always for bringing about that dystopia. Look at the circles he ran in, same as this psycho.