Indonesia was a Dutch empire, nobody thought of having a liberal democracy in Indonesia - it was a Dutch colony. I don't know in five years, maybe it will continue to become worse and worse and become far worse.īut as of 2018, it's much better than a century ago, when liberal democracy was actually just a very small number of countries around the world. But when you actually look at the facts on the ground, even though, yes, people are losing faith in liberal democracy and it is in crisis, it is far less severe so far. In this sense, it is scarier than in the past. It is scary especially because time is running out to confront these issues, like climate change. Is it really? Because right now the situation seems pretty scary to me. In a recent interview, you said the crisis the liberal democracy is facing right now is nothing compared to those of the 20 th century. They cannot be solved by any single nation, by any single government, and therefore the current rise of more nationalist and isolationist politics is very troubling because it might prevent humankind from finding any solution to the major problems that we are facing. The three main problems we face are nuclear war, climate change and technological disruption, and these global problems have only global solutions. But you can say perhaps that the overarching message is that we now face global problems which have only global answers. Whereas the first two books have a continuous narrative, this book, 21 Lessons, is about the present and jumps into different areas and different questions, ranging from new technologies to political crises to personal issues. What is the main idea behind 21 Lessons for the 21 st Century? The Jakarta Post sat down with Harari to ask a few questions. So if we don't start a discussion, we can't expect to get any answer." "What is the difference between a Democrat and a Republican in their policies on AI? There is no difference. Harari argued that most political parties so far had no views on the issue. Take artificial intelligence (AI) for instance.
"We are just at the beginning of having these discussions, and one of the problems is that people are not even aware of these questions," he said. "You can't understand what's happening in your life if you know just about what's happening in your country," he said.īut he is not offering an answer to the concerns in 21 Lessons. Harari believed that these concerns required global cooperation, which made nationalism and a refusal to know global news unacceptable. Unlike Sapiens and Homo Deus, which have a single narrative, 21 Lessons touches a lot of bases, from the news industry, whose model he called "catastrophic", to the unwelcome rise of nationalism and isolationism.
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