Social Control Is Best Managed Through Fear.

Extrapolating From The Statistical Growth Of The Legal Profession, By The Year 2035 Every Single Person In The United States Will Be A Lawyer, Including Newborn Infants.

Friendships Are Nice. So Is Competence.

If You Gamble Long Enough, You'll Always Lose -- The Gambler Is Always Ruined.

Nobody Is Driven By Abstractions Like 'seeking Truth.

But Complex Animals Had Obtained Their Adaptive Flexibility At Some Cost--they Had Traded One Dependency For Another. It Was No Longer Necessary To Change Their Bodies To Adapt, Because Now Their Adaptation Was Behavior, Socially Determined. That Behavior Required Learning. In A Sense, Among Higher Animals Adaptive Fitness Was No Longer Transmitted To The Next Generation By Dna At All. It Was Now Carried By Teaching.