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

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

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

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

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.

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