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

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.

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

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

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

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

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.