“Any society is controlled by a web of feedback control mechanisms, from the private, then public opinion of colleagues to police rapid-response teams, all of which limits and guides the actions of the society's members. A few years of exotic living spent free of such controls are usually sufficient for personal character quirks and obsessions, of whatever kind, to develop to levels that would be deemed pathological on one's home ground.” SocietyQuirks Book:Notebooks from New Guinea: Field Notes of a Tropical Biologist Source: Notebooks from New Guinea: Field Notes of a Tropical Biologist