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• [Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the…
• Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural…
• It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.
• We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.
• It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride,…
• No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.
• Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our…
• Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind…
• Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if…
• Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.
• We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to…
• Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

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