Cover
 
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
 
NOTES
 
Part 3 WHY HUMANS SELF-DESTRUCT
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS Part 3
 
The Theory of Individual SelectionƒAnd Its Flaws
 
Superorganism
 
Isolation--The Ultimate Poison
 
Even Heroes Are Insecure
 
Loving the Child Within Is Not Enough
 
NOTES
 
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
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
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
 
NOTES
 
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
 
NOTES
 
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
 
NOTES
 
Part 8 WHO ARE THE NEXT BARBARIANS?
 
Table of Contents
 
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"
 
NOTES
 
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
 
Notes