Well, applying Best seller's keys to scientific dissemination: an unhindered sparkling story, a refined description of characters and situations without nuances, clearly delineating the areas of good and evil, and above all, a message that allows us to calm our ears: We've had problems over 200,000 years, but we're coming to light. We live better than ever before, in general, and we have at our disposal remedies for the small problems we still have. It is a matter of time for the development of the technique to solve all of them. The Dream Sky will immediately materialize on our Earth – think about what it is a few years when we talk about the prospect of hundreds of thousands of years.

Sapiens is full of interesting ideas, among which there is one, the main one in my image, that of the “cognitive revolution”: biological autonomy that allowed “the human capacity to create imaginary worlds”, and with which the door opened to place itself above other species and to create civilizations. It deals with other issues, a lot of dubious arguments and, above all, the lack of nuances on the way to reach the ideological position mentioned above. And I say ideological, because in the name of science the main ideologies are developed nowadays: narrations and ideas are given a methodology and a scientific nuance, always in the name of objectivity.

I am not going to go into some of the doubtful statements or loopholes in the book here, and then trilogy, or the artifacts that are made to guide the data used to the conclusions that have been set out above, who does not? Harari (B. Gates, M. "Listen, B. Obama, A. Merkel or E. Macron, among others), was also consulted when the coronavirus crisis broke out. I will go straight to a recent interview with a newspaper (El País, 20 March 2020), in which I will discuss with your opinions.

In the interview, he rightly denounces: “In recent years, many irresponsible politicians have broken trust in science and international cooperation, and we are now paying for that. There are no mature people.” This last sentence was the first one that gave me that tendency to the psychological explanations that we are increasingly using: “The posts of the authorities are full of immature children, the military are monkeys with pistols...” What if these authorities were not “irresponsible” or “immature”, but fully aware and responsible in their decisions, serving the interests they defend? Is it not often that there are people who are prepared for the massacre at the top command posts, who choose their enemies and destroy them in war?

Next, Harari summarizes the five-point program to address the Coronavirus crisis: (1) “Sharing reliable information”, (2) “Equitably coordinate the production, supply and distribution of essential medical material”, (3) “Provide doctors, nurses and experts to the people most affected by the least affected countries”, (4) “Create a global economic security network to save the most affected territories and sectors”, (5) “Enter into a trouble-free global agreement”, so that some people can freely. Without going into nuances about one point or another, a question hits me like a stone in my head: Which planet do you think has been touched by living on? And it reminds me of those early astronauts who, on the return of space, jumped into the orbit of Earth, excited by the beauty of the “blue planet”, who proclaimed, with tears, the brotherhood of all.

But Hara is convinced of the evolution towards the happiness of society, and to show how this must be achieved, it sets as an example the elimination of diseases such as baztanga that, according to him, “was achieved thanks to universal vaccination”. Thus, he proposes the idea of the unanimous bulldozer of global immunization against pandemics, “which we all accept, removing some of the antisocial psychopaths against vaccines”. History, however, tells us that Harari's discipline, the fall of smallpox in Europe, had nothing to do with mass vaccination; for example, in Leicester, England, where 95% of babies were vaccinated in the 1871-1872 epidemic, the authorities rejected this measure and instead opted for hygiene measures.[1]

Contrary to what Harari says, there has been no global vaccination against smallpox. I have had the opportunity to participate in a vaccination campaign promoted by the Red Cross in Africa and I have seen that this type of campaign is impossible in most places in Africa and that the data given are false, the main objective of this type of campaign being the laundering of the neo-colonial plans of the old metropolis. According to another analogy, endemic diseases such as malaria have not disappeared because vaccines against them have not been invented, but the truth is that it disappeared from Europe long ago, even without vaccines, and with the improvement of living conditions here. Those who join Hariri’s ideology insist on the same:Universal solutions are in the hands of technical solutions and, even in the case of the coronavirus crisis, the solution is to vaccinate all people from all territories. If the inhabitants of a single territory were not vaccinated, they would become dangerous for the rest of the world, as the smallpox virus would reproduce and its possible evolution would increase. While recognizing that vaccination may be valid, this firm claim is false in itself, as the problems are always more complex and, back to covid19, the problems generated and generated by the vaccine itself and its distribution are a clear example of this.

In that interview, Hari also referred to the problem of climate change and proposed simple technical arrangements as if the ecological disaster were a matter for the future. The problem is yet to come and we can prevent it. It is not a disaster in force, already irreversible in many areas, totally linked to our lifestyle and our productive model. And, taking advantage of the port, it opposes the bad fortunes that question economic progress: “There are some who think that in order to curb climate change, we will have to stop economic progress and go back to the caves and feed ourselves with roots. What foolishness!” What is, however, a stupidity: questioning the dogma of progress or making the necessary choice between growth and “eating roots”? It is surprising to see to what extent these kinds of attitudes, ideologies and discourses are affected by hidden pride.

I should like to mention one more point. Faced with all the strands, he explains that he combines his daily work with spiritual monologues. From time to time, he withdraws to meditate and encourages us to follow his example. The second issue of the trilogy he has written is dedicated to Master Goenka. The retirement monologues who organize their followers are spread all over the world. I also meditated and was in one of them. That's why I get the topic out. To begin with, the doctrine offered in these soliloquies is poterized – the teacher does not speak directly; his words are only offered in English through recordings and then translated into other languages – while the view offered on Buddhism is totally simplistic and revisionist, like most Western Buddhists, by the way. Among them, it is common to proclaim and deny at the same time the first “noble truth” of the Buddha – sarvam dukha, “everything is pain” translated in any way – and, of course, deny the ontological sense of that statement, which is the natural complement of humanity. Also in this case, this would be a “technical issue”: “Let us put everyone to meditate – after proper vaccination – and the Dukha will become a prehistoric issue”.

Hariri is an Israeli professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, but he does not seem to have anything to say about his “problems” – Palestinian apartheid or the Middle East war that extends to an increasingly wider territory, destroying the lives of millions of human beings and conditioning global geopolitics. I do not know his opinion of these problems, but he will presumably have accounts drawn: he will rightly think that a small mistake in those ‘sliding’ areas is enough to be expelled from the courts of the rulers, or to get into trouble in his own territory, and that would be a pointless risk for someone who has so much to say and sell.