Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
From Keith Henson
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.
Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
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.
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.
I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
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