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

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

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

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

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.

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