My partner and I are currently watching the doco series ‘wild wild country’ and it seems crazy to me how people join these things. But then again, I have also read and heard podcasts where people talk about how the capacity to do everything humans have done — murder, joining cults, and anything else — exists within all of us, and so maybe joining a cult is in my future after all haha.
Exactly, I’ve listened to some podcasts with people who grew up in Scientology. Because they were raised in it they simply didn’t question the practices that they thought were strange. It was a well, “that person that everyone respects says these things so we ought to follow them.” It’s a sensible mentality if you think leaders know better but I don’t know how often that’s true.
Yeah, it is a sensible mentality, but what it makes me think is how much stuff are we, in our supposedly sane not-cult-like society just accepting because some leader says it.
When you really think about it, the whole thing could be a house of cards hahaha
The whole cult thing is super interesting.
My partner and I are currently watching the doco series ‘wild wild country’ and it seems crazy to me how people join these things. But then again, I have also read and heard podcasts where people talk about how the capacity to do everything humans have done — murder, joining cults, and anything else — exists within all of us, and so maybe joining a cult is in my future after all haha.
Thanks :)
Exactly, I’ve listened to some podcasts with people who grew up in Scientology. Because they were raised in it they simply didn’t question the practices that they thought were strange. It was a well, “that person that everyone respects says these things so we ought to follow them.” It’s a sensible mentality if you think leaders know better but I don’t know how often that’s true.
Yeah, it is a sensible mentality, but what it makes me think is how much stuff are we, in our supposedly sane not-cult-like society just accepting because some leader says it.
When you really think about it, the whole thing could be a house of cards hahaha
Thanks :)
Absolutely, as scary as it is
To convince someone that you are god’s disciple by picking the right music for Tik Toks sounds like an SNL skit.
Truly.
Any cult documentary (NXIVM!) is a guilty pleasure of mine. In general a good scam will do it for me (Theranos! Weirdly inspiring haha)
Yeah it’s a wild story