The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

The truth has value.

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

To me, no matter what we do, we all strive for that experience.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.