Keith Henson Quotes

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

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

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

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

I much prefer the modern world.

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

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

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.

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

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.

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.

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.

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.

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.

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