Mark Pagel Quotes

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

Language allows you to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.