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

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.

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 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.

love is not a race 1st 2nd 3rd....Love Is Only LoVE, It come From Inside and Love Is Being In us!!!!

All my years to this momentAll my roads to this wall.All my words to this silenceAll my pride to this fall.-Songs of Sapphique

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I thought I was 'the writing type'.

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.

It is impossible to catch today; it flows out from our palms! It is impossible to catch tomorrow; it flows out from our palms! We cannot hold them; they constantly run away from us!

I've always noticed that girls cry way easier than guys do.

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.