Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

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.

There’s no blade in the world as sharp as rejection.

Make a good gallery! Your names and your photos give you a unique identity. Make and maintain a good name in the hearts of people. Paint good photos in their minds.

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldnt do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

I can't believe there are so many people who aren't us.

Are you listening, little bird?

Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.

Click. Boom. Amazing!

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.