At the beginning of the weekend, on Friday evening, I met with my four friends, with whom I spent a large part of my life. These are my classmates from elementary school.
Old bastards, as we were called 😁
We have known each other for a very long time, in a few years, it will be half a century already, and we know each other very well.
We know everything about each other...
What are our thoughts, what decisions have we made in our lives, what is our political commitment.
We know all the relationships with girls that started and failed, we were best men at each other's weddings. We know the financial situation each of us is in, when someone is struggling with money or when he contracts a job and has made a nice profit.
We know who is rooting for whom, whether they have health problems or not.
So, we know everything about each other.
And there are no unknowns.
But...
There are a lot of unknowns around the various global topics we talk about when we gather like this.
Politics, ecology, economy, military, technology, crypto, industry, wars...
We got into a discussion about geopolitical issues, the relationship between America, Russia and China and what is a good option for us.
We mentioned the Ukrainian-Russian war, as well as the conflicts in Israel.
We also touched on the topic of crypto.
And at some point, since he knows that I like to read, my godfather asks me if I have read the book "21 Lessons for the 21st Century", by Yuval Noah Harari.
Since I didn't, he briefly told me what topics the author touches on and that he found it very interesting.
I didn't want to excessively read the readers' comments, because the topics that my godfather told me the author was writing about really interested me.
Chapter One: The Technological Challenge
Chapter Two: The Political Challenge
Chapter Three: Despair and Hope
Chapter Four: The Truth
Chapter Five: Resilience
I immediately went to the bookstore, found the book and bought it.
Now I have to read these 434 pages events from the perspective of the historian, Yuval Noah Harare.
*What is happening in the world today and what is the deepest meaning of these events?
Technology advances faster than we can understand it, and the world has never been so polarized.*
The book was written in 2018, published in our country in 2019, and does not cover the last 5 years of the situation in the world, which would make it even more interesting, but I will read it anyway.
I didn't know that the themes were not updated, that there was a gap of 5 years, but considering how much my godfather liked it, it's probably good.
If it included the world crisis due to the corona virus pandemic, the war in Ukraine, as well as the war in Israel and the battle for the election of the future US president, it would be even more interesting.
When I read how a foreign historian saw the world situation until 2018, I will compare it with our view, and the next time I meet my friends again, I will talk to my godfather and share my experiences with him.
Maybe then I'll get back to the #weekendengagement community with my vision of this book, which I'll be turning the pages for the next month 😀