Name: Yuval Noah Harari on COVID-19's Impact on Humankind
Uploaded: 2020-04-23T18:36:24.000Z
Duration: 14 min 22 s
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♪ WELCOME BACK, OUR GUEST TONIGHT IS AN HISTORIAN,

PHILOSOPHER AND BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF SAPAN HODAIS AND 21

LESSONS FOR THE 2 13S CENTURY ONE OF THE BRIGHTERREST MINDS,

HAVE I WANTED TO HAVE HIM ON AS A GUEST FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF

YEARS AND THIS FEELS LIKE PERHAPS THE PERFECT TIME, WILL

TALK US TO ABOUT WHAT THE WORLD MIGHT LOOK LIKE ONCE THIS STORM

PASSES, JOINING US TODAY FROM HIS HOME NEAR JERUSALEM.

>> James: HOW ARE YOU BEARING UP OVER THERE, ARE YOU OKAY?

MY HUSBAND AND ME ARE LOCKED UP IN OUR HOUSE ON THE OUTCIRCUITS

>> James: YOU DO HAVE ONE OF THOSE MINDS THAT I THINK PEOPLE

THE FIRST THING I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IS HOW DO YOU THINK THE

WORLD WILL BE DIFFERENT WHEN WE'VE GOT THROUGH THIS PANDEMIC.

>>S THAT COMPLETELY DEPENDS ON-- ST NOT PREDETERMINED STRKS

ONE BIG CHOILINGS IS WHETHER WE DEAL WITH THIS CRISIS THROUGH

NATIONALISTIC ISOLATION, EACH COUNTRY COMPETING WITH ALL THE

OTHERS FOR THE SCARS RESOURCES OR WHETHER WE DEAL WITH IT

THROUGH INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND COOPERATION.

AND WHICH THIS WILL SHAPE NOT JUST THE CRISIS BUT ALSO THE

EARLY ON THE LEVEL OF EACH INDIVIDUAL COUNTRY, EACH COUNTRY

HAS TO CHOOSE WHETHER IT DEALS WITH THE CRISIS IN AN

AUTHORITARIAN WAY BY EMPOWERING SOME DICTATOR OR POWERFUL

AUTHORITY OR WHETHER IT DEALS WITH THE CRISIS BY EMPOWERING

THE CITIZENS AND TEACHING DEMOCRATIC CHECKS AND BALANCES.

AND WE SEE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ADOPTING VERY DIFFERENT

AND THIS IS OBVIOUSLY SHAPED THIS COUNTRY FOR YEARS TO COME.

BUT IN THE COMING WEEKS, ARE THE CRITICAL POINTS.

IN WHICH THESE DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE, WHATEVER COMES

AFTERWARDS, IT IS LIKE COMING TO A PARTY AFTER THE PARTY IS OVER

AND THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO IS TO WASH THE DISHES.

NOW THEY ARE HANDING OUT TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS, THEY ARE

WHOEVER KOSMS IN 2021 WILL FIND IT VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO KIND

OF REWIND THE MOVIE AND TRY SOMETHING ELSE.

>> James: THERE IS SUCH MISTRUST OF POLITICIANS,

SCIENTISTS, RIGHT NOW AREN'T BEING HEARD AND LISTENED TO IN

THE MANNER THAT I THINK THEY PROBABLY SHOULD BE.

AND TRUST IS A FUMENTD ISSUE IN ALL OF THIS, RIGHT?

>> YEAH, WITHOUT TRUST WE CAN'T DEAL WITH THERE CRISIS

IN RECENT YEARS WE HAD POLL DIGS-- POLITICIANS DELIBERATELY

UNDERMINE THE TRUST IN PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, IN SCIENCE, IN THE

AND NOW WE ARE PAYING THE PRICE OF IT YOU KNOW, IN NORMAL TIMES

MAYBE YOU CAN RUN A COUNTRY WHEN ONLY HALF THE POPULATION

BUT IN EMERGENCIES LIKE THIS, YOU NEED A HUNDRED PERSZ OF THE

PEOPLE TO TRUST THE GOVERNMENT AND THE AUTHORITIES.

IF YOU GET ADVICE FROM THE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT AND HALF THE

POPULATION GOES AND SAYING WITH THIS PERSON HAS BB LYING TO ME

FOR YEARS, WHY SHOULD I BELIEVE IT NOW, IT IS GOING TO BE VERY

I THINK THE GOOD SIGN THOUGH IS THAT AT LEAST WHEN IT COMES TO

SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC AUTHORITY WE SEE THAT ALMOST ALL OVER THE

WORLD PEOPLE HAVE A HIDDEN RESERVOIR OF DEEP TRUST IN

SCIENCE, DESPITE THE RECENT YEARS OF ATTACKS ON SCIENCE.

IN MY HOME COUNTRY OF ISRAEL, THE GOVERNMENT CLOSED DOWN THE

CHURCHES ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE TELLING PEOPLE STAY AWAY FROM

SO EVEN THESE RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS WHEN IT COMES TO

A REAL EMERGENCY, THEY TRUST IN SCIENCE MORE THAN IN ANYTHING

I HOPE AFTER THE CRISIS IS OVER PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER WHO THEY

REALLY TRUSTED IN THE MOMENT OF TRUTH AND AFTERWARDS WHEN

SCIENTISTS WARN US ABOUT ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE OR CLIMATE

CHANGE, WE TAKE IT WITH THE SAME TRUST IN THE SAME PERIOD THAT WE

NOW LISTEN TO THE SCIENTISTS TELLING US ABOUT IT THEN.

>> WHEN WE MOVE FORWARD HOW DO YOU THINK THIS TIME WILL IMPACT

HOW WE SOCIALLY INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER GOING FORWARD, WHAT

>> THERE COULD BE BIG CHANGES IN THE JOB MARKET, IN THE

SOME UNIVERSITIES MOVE ONLINE, THEN THIS WILL CREATE A

COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SOCIAL ATMOSPHERE FOR THE STUDENTS, AND

WHEN I WENT TO UNIVERSITY, TO SCHOOL, THE MOST INTERESTING AND

ALL THE CLASSES ARE ON ZOOM, THERE ARE NO, THERE ARE NO

SO SOME THINGS ARE GOING TO CHANGE DRAMICALLY, PROGRAMS.

BUT THE FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN NATURE WILL NOT CHANGE.

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