Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

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.

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.

Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.

I much prefer the modern world.

The rewards that compulsive gamblers get are only one step removed from exogenous chemicals, unless you are a big winner.

The picture that emerges for humans in the previous several million years is that of a social primate living in small bands and villages.

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.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.