If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.

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

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.

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.

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

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