It's an easy read that draws a narrative through the whole of human history. It's okay, and some ideas were interesting, but it's full of opinion written as fact, bending things out of shape to fit in with an idea and I think quite a lot of inaccuracies.

I really feel that human happiness being nothing more than the hormone levels in the brain is a massive simplification in danger of just being wrong: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jul/no-evidence-depression-caused-low-serotonin-levels-finds-comprehensive-review

I'm so bored of the futurism stuff in the last chapter too.