J. Pietersen

Useful nuggets in a gold pan of gravel

Revisado: 03-11-25

Nexus stands in total contrast to Sapiens. Harari shines as historian but sounds naive as futurist. There are useful insights for the reader/listener willing to search through the heap of chaff but it's easy to get bored along the way. My inner algorithm tells me the author, albeit historically knowledgeable and obviously intelligent, gets more irrelevant the further he peeps past the twentieth century.

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What an astonishing work!

Revisado: 12-21-24

Thoroughly argued and brilliantly explained, with profound insights. A must-read for all children of Europe.

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Utterly convincing

Revisado: 08-17-24

Densely packed with researched information and astonishingly convincing precisely because it is based on research and graceously argued. Haidt and his researchers have written a text on the level of John Locke. May this become a standard source of political research and argument for this millennium.

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Aan exceptional interview of the streets quo

Revisado: 09-15-23

It's too late, of course - laws have been written, careers ruined, thousands of teenagers' development irrevocably stunted. But through these insights we can at least understand what went wrong and who was responsible.

This book and its diagrams make a compelling case against the devouring progressivism in the West of late, and although there are some signs of a slowdown and perhaps even reversal the road to hell has received a fresh topping. One can only hope that this masterpiece provides a reality check to enough social revolutionaries to stop the cultural landslide and slow others to attend to the damage already done.

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Interesting but disappointing

Revisado: 11-21-22

The author makes two mistakes: first to assess historical events in current model terms, and secondly to spend too much time on surviving effects and too little on analysis. I was hoping to learn more about how marriage developed and changed over time but instead had to settle for a Daniel Steele version of history - too much floral writing about a select few off the countless millions of marriages with too little historical context and even less scholarly analysis. Perhaps the writer was too lazy to do research and chose to fill the covers with personal views in romantic prose instead, or perhaps she simply lacks the intellectual rigour to create a definitive work. Either way, what's left is strictly for ideologues.

This is not a great course but in the style of a mediocre TEDx-type talk.

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An excellent overview!

Revisado: 11-03-22

Well narrated and interesting. Gives perspective to the current upheavals in a region that is no stranger to wars.

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Truly exceptional

Revisado: 10-31-22

This epitome isn't only staggering in its breadth, but also very well woven together. It covers important little detail without ever becoming bogged down in trivia. Even bits of common knowledge, for example Plato's Cave, is presented in ways that provide perfect context. Worth listening to over and over.

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JK Rowling for adults

Revisado: 07-31-22

Brilliant, mostly. The writing style is a tad too melodramatic for my liking - in Chapter 23 it starts get tedious and by Chapter 29 it's grinding. The reader makes it worse. Small grammatical errors, such as "less mistakes" instead of "fewer mistakes".

As for the performance: the reader reads decimals poorly - 2.34 becomes "two point thirty four". I giggle at the thought of him reading Pi :)

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Convincing

Revisado: 07-22-22

China is poorly understood by lay people, and judged by standards that shouldn't be applied to them, considering their very long and unique history. They deserve better respect.

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A great tale of adventure

Revisado: 06-12-22

Extremely will written and fascinating in content, this book provides great insights into the heart of Africa. The usual suspects are blamed for the DRC's stagnation, although a smattering of other, internal factors are at least mentioned.

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