Culture, the unsaid but real face of human interaction

ebb and flow of religious faith is shaped by socio-economic environments. “When people grow up in conditions where their survival is not secure, they tend to be more religious

The thing about great institutions (a fancy way of saying “the rules we all agree to play by”) is they’re expensive to build.

Culture is both an explanation and a non-explanation.

The thing about memes is they don't spread because someone forces them to. They spread because they make connections that weren’t there before.