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

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

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.

I much prefer the modern world.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

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

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.