The far-from-original point I will try to make now should seem obvious: There is an unsettling similarity between the rituals of the obsessive-compul… - Robert Sapolsky

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of our sense of mystery, not to cure us of our sense of mystery. The purpose of science is to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate that mystery. To always use it in a context where we are helping people in trying to resist the forces of ideology that we are all familiar with.

Like so many other animals, we have an often-frantic need to conform, belong, and obey. Such conformity can be markedly maladaptive, as we forgo better solutions in the name of the foolishness of the crowd.