Yuval Noah Harari, the most frequent guest speaker at Google and often referred to as the No. 2 at the World Economic Forum, has written a children’s comic version of Sapiens and states humans like us might go extinct by 2100, which is within the expected lifetime of tens of millions of people alive today.
No wonder young people ages 10-20, 20-30, and 30-40 are committing suicide in record numbers, and sort of committing slow suicide via drug overdose, also in record numbers.
Our leading public intellectual is saying the world they know will die in any case, so they think “Why bother? There’s no point.”