history is usually written by the victors, but sapiens reads like a confession. harari takes us through the three great revolutions, cognitive, agricultural, scientific and exposes the heavy collateral damage of our success. the realization that the agricultural revolution might have been history’s biggest fraud, benefiting the species as a collective while making the life of the individual individual much harder, is a thought that lingers long after you close the pages. it’s a brilliant, sweeping narrative about how we traded our freedom for power, and how we are still paying the price for it today.