Sublime

That is what Sociopaths ultimately do with their lives if they survive long enough: generate amoral power from increasing inner emptiness, transforming themselves into forces of nature. As a side-effect, they also manufacture transient meanings to fuel the theaters of religiosity (including various secular religions) that lend meaning to lives of L

endorphin-receptor genes, on the other hand, had by far their strongest effect on measures of social predisposition,

Human society as we know it – indeed, even primate society – would be impossible without it.

studying the motivations of individuals in isolation: the patterns we see are a fundamentally social affair. More, as Anderson

The individual is a cell in the social superorganism. When he feels he is no longer necessary to the larger group, he, too, begins to wither away.

it was the social measures that most influenced your chances of surviving,

Research has shown that the more connected we are socially, the longer we will live and the faster we will recover when we get ill. In truth, isolation and loneliness puts us at a greater risk for early disease and death than smoking.

California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield