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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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