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Concept number four: the neural net, the group mind whose

eccentric mode of operation manipulates our emotions and turns us into

components of a massive learning machine.

Concept number five: the pecking order.  The naturalist who

discovered this "dominance hierarchy" in a Norwegian farmyard called

it the key to despotism.  Pecking orders exist among men, monkeys,

wasps... and even nations.  They help explain why the danger of

barbarians is real, and why the assumptions of our foreign policies are

often wrong.

Five simple ideas.  Yet the insights they yield are amazingly rich.

They reveal why doctors are not always as powerful as they seem, but

why we are compelled to believe in them nonetheless.  They explain

how Hinduism--the religion of ultimate peace--grew from the greed of a

tribe of bloodthirsty killers, and why nature disposes of men far more

casually than women.  They shed light on America's decline... and the

dangers that lie ahead of us.

Above all, they illuminate a mystery that has eternally eluded

man... the root of the evil that haunts our lives.  For within the five small

ideas we will pursue there lurks a force that rules us.

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Concept number four: the neural net, the group mind whose

eccentric mode of operation manipulates our emotions and turns us into

components of a massive learning machine.

Concept number five: the pecking order.  The naturalist who

discovered this "dominance hierarchy" in a Norwegian farmyard called

it the key to despotism.  Pecking orders exist among men, monkeys,

wasps... and even nations.  They help explain why the danger of

barbarians is real, and why the assumptions of our foreign policies are

often wrong.

Five simple ideas.  Yet the insights they yield are amazingly rich.

They reveal why doctors are not always as powerful as they seem, but

why we are compelled to believe in them nonetheless.  They explain

how Hinduism--the religion of ultimate peace--grew from the greed of a

tribe of bloodthirsty killers, and why nature disposes of men far more

casually than women.  They shed light on America's decline... and the

dangers that lie ahead of us.

Above all, they illuminate a mystery that has eternally eluded

man... the root of the evil that haunts our lives.  For within the five small

ideas we will pursue there lurks a force that rules us.