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Part 1 WHEN EVIL COMES DISGUISED AS LOVE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction, by David Sloan Wilson
Prologue
Who Is Lucifer?
The Clint Eastwood Conundrum
The Whole Is Bigger Than the Sum of Its Parts
The Chinese Cultural Revolution
Part 2 BLOODSTAINS IN PARADISE
TABLE OF CONTENTS Part 2
Mother Nature, the Bloody Bitch
Women--Not the Peaceful Creatures You Think
Fighting For The Privilege of Procreation
The Greed of Genes
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Part 3 WHY HUMANS SELF-DESTRUCT
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The Theory of Individual SelectionƒAnd Its Flaws
Superorganism
Isolation--The Ultimate Poison
Even Heroes Are Insecure
Loving the Child Within Is Not Enough
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Part 4 ONE MAN'S GOD IS ANOTHER MAN'S DEVIL
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Us Vs. Them
The Value of Having an Enemy
The Perceptual Trick That Manufactures Devils
How Hatred Builds The Walls of Society's Bungalow
NOTES
Part 5 MAN--INVENTOR OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD
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From Genes to Memes
The Nose of a Rat and the Human Mind-- A Brief History of the Rise of Memes
How Wrong Ideas Can Be Right
The Village of the Sorcerers and the Riddle of Control
The Modern Medical Shaman
Control and the Urge to Pray
Power and the Invisible World
Einstein and the Eskimos
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Part 6 The Mysteries of the Evolutionary Learning Machine
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Connectionist Explanation of the Mass Mind's Dreams
Society as a Neural Net
The Expendability of Males
How Men Are Society's Dice
Is Pitching a Genetically Acquired Skill
Oliver Cromwell--The Rodent Instincts Don a Disguise
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Part 7 IDEOLOGY IS THEFT
Table of Contents
The Invisible World As A Weapon
The True Route to Utopia
Why Men Embrace Ideas--And Why Ideas Embrace Men
Righteous Indignation=Greed for Real Estate
Shiites
Poetry and the Lust for Power
When Memes Collide--The Pecking Order of Nations
Superior Chickens Make Friends
Worldviews As The Welding Torch of the Hierarchical Chain
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Part 8 WHO ARE THE NEXT BARBARIANS?
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The Barbarian Principle
Are There Killer Cultures?
Violence In South America And Africa
The Importance Of Hugging
The Puzzle of Complacency
Poverty With Prestige Is Better Than Affluent Disgrace
Why Prosperity Will Not Bring Peace
The Secret Meaning of "Freedom," "Peace" and "Justice"
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Part 9 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
Table of Contents
The Victorian Decline And The Fall of America
Scapegoats and Sexual Hysteria
Laboratory Rats And The Oil Crisis
Why Nations Pretend To Be Blind
How The Pecking Order Reshapes The Mind
Perceptual Shutdown And the Future of America
The Myth of Stress
Tennis Time and the Mental Clock
THE LUCIFERIAN PARADOX
The Lucifer Principle
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
About The Author
Bibliography
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