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.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

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

I much prefer the modern world.

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

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

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.