First, the formation of a country actually stems from imagination. He mentioned that the group information exchange with less than 150 people mainly depends on gossip and interpersonal relationships, while the group information exchange with more than 150 people mainly depends on imagination and fiction. The meaning of imagination and fiction is actually a virtual construction of the future, which allows everyone to imagine together and weave various stories, thus encouraging them to pay for imagination. For example, the Bible has virtually constructed Jesus, but it has produced Christianity with a large number of believers. The author even mentioned that our modern country is also based on people's imagination.
Second, the agricultural revolution is actually more like a pile? A scam? The author thinks that the agricultural revolution is not as great as some historians say, but it brought down primitive humans and tied them together. Because before the agricultural revolution, primitive humans mainly collected, and the time of collection was free. He can spend half a day hunting, rest for the second half and even change his residence at any time. However, during the agricultural revolution, primitive people had to be stationed in one place because of the demand of planting and caring for crops. With their familiarity with planting, their hunting ability gradually deteriorated. Once they encounter natural disasters, their harvest is not good, but they will starve. So compared with gathering and hunting, agriculture made primitive people more tired, less free and more like a pile? A scam? .
From the above two points, we can actually find that this book shows a different view of history and provides us with another way to look at historical development. In addition to the author's desire to interpret history in a different way, I think it is more important to convey a view of history. He hopes that readers can be critical, ask more questions and think more.