People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. – 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. – Keith Henson
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. – Keith Henson
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. – Keith Henson
What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers. – Jean Dubuffet