Keith Henson Quotes
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.
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
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.
Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.
Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.
Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.
Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.