If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble. - Robert Sapolsky

We build theologies around violence, elect leaders who excel at it, and in the case of so many women, preferentially mate with champions of human combat. When it’s the "right" type of aggression, we love it.

From the very moment of your life, culture is leaving an imprint on who you are.

Oxytocin, the luv hormone, makes us more prosocial to Us and worse to everyone else. That’s not generic prosociality. That’s ethnocentrism and xenophobia.