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    This book is about the social body in which we are the unwitting

    cells.  It is about the hidden ways in which that social group manipulates

    our psychology, and even our biology.  It is about how a social organism

    scrambles for survival--and works for mastery over other organisms of

    its kind.  It is about how we, without the slightest sense of what the long

    term results may be of our minuscule actions, contribute to the social

    organism's ponderous and sometimes earth-shattering deeds.  It is about

    how in our preoccupations with sex, our submission to gods and

    leaders, our sometimes suicidal commitment to ideas, religions and

    trivial details of cultural style, we become the unconscious creators of

    the social organism's exploits.

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