“Everybody knows that if the bully can just beat this kid, it becomes the new norm. In the past year, President Putin has become a bête noire of sorts for Harari, who has written several op-eds condemning him. His three big novels, ‘Sapiens’, ‘Homo Deus’ and ‘21 Lessons for the 21st Century’ have collectively sold 40 million copies. His full-time operation is explaining the 70,000 years of human existence to humans. But if you compare Putin to a big bully in school, who comes and starts beating a smaller kid, they get it.” Chastising dictators is a part-time gig for 46-year-old Harari. If you talk about the Russian invasion of Ukraine in big, abstract terms, it’s difficult.
While talking about his new book for children, ‘Unstoppable Us: How Humans took over the World’, he says, “You have to present (complex ideas) in a way that is understandable to them. So, according to author Yuval Noah Harari, it isn’t tough to explain the actions of Russian president Vladimir Putin to them. Mumbai: Eight-year-olds understand supervillains better than grown-ups.
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