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

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.

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.

Yoga is not just a workout, it is a natural way of enhancing flexibility, calmness, clarity, and youthfulness.

You are my favorite thing to do. ~ Oliver Sand

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than to be talked about. I think I belong in the latter category.

Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

I wouldn't say I was part of an anti-war campaign.

I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.