why must everything be a cult =-=

Because She Sells Sanctuary

Snek cult best cult.

because the people are retarded

it isn't. it just looks that way to the paranoid eye.

Because the parties are always fun in a group :)

Isn't a cult partially defined as a small part of the population? Otherwise it turns into a religion? Also, mentally ill people have been in charge of entire countries before. Royals, DC Congress, Swifties, etc.

@tosensei I think you might be in a cult

@Demolishun I been binge watching a podcast called "was I in a cult"

I'm noticing the internet doesn't really tell you what a cult is anymore

but the common theme in all these stories that regardless of the tactics, of which there are many and I find fascinating, the end goal is always to control other people. so you make them stupid to alternative forms of information, and then you feed them false information to create worldviews and beliefs that make people do what you want them to do

sometimes there's also emotional breakdown -- so you make people doubt themselves, or train them to have emotional reactions to things so that they do the requisite action around those things (for example fear or guilt so they feel afraid to eat food or talk to people, etc)

also a lot of them slander which was always wild to me because as soon as someone slanders I think they're the suspicious person

cults seem to happen naturally a lot through just one person exporting themselves & having issues

a lot of managers I had tried to train me to have emotional reactions so I would do what they wanted me to do

instead of just asking me

and I found it so offensive, and hostile

but in general companies want to create "closeness" and will reject you for "not a culture fit" if you aren't saying their buzzwords and worldviews, dressing like them, etc. if you have different opinions then you get excommunicated before you even enter. they don't even know they're doing this, because to them all these things seem normalized

asking you about yourself and making you feel welcome is a great hook for lonely people, they want people who want to "work for something greater than themselves" (aka ignore yourself for our cult, we are holy). happens a lot at interviews

similarly companies lie profusely about fucking everything to manipulate outcomes. nobody even bats an eye at it. we all just think this level of manipulation is normal and excus it away, making jokes, etc