Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

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.

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

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.

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.