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

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

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.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

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

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