I also recommend Don Delillo's Mao II, which covers the Moon cult and the deprogramming of one of the ex-followers.<p>And Ted Patrick! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzlNrWlakmA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzlNrWlakmA</a><p>Cults are fascinating- some appear to be by opportunists, and others true believers, but all are dangerous. I feel that the word cult is sometimes given a bad name, and it is overlooked in the word culture, yet I think it is a great way to examine modern-day dictatorships and nuclear powers, which still use some some of that power (maybe not so much in the west) to broadcast a cult of personality.
Mind Control Made Easy by Carey Burtt (HQ)<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJfm71I0OyU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJfm71I0OyU</a>
Feel the need to post this fantastic read: <a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/larry-ray-sarah-lawrence-students.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.thecut.com/article/larry-ray-sarah-lawrence-stud...</a><p>> His primary conversational tactic is to overwhelm. He can go on 20-minute unbroken monologues, especially if the subject turns to his victimhood. Everyone in his past, from his defense attorneys to his own mother, is “corrupt” or “biased.” He firmly believes that he, Felicia, Isabella, and Talia have been poisoned — and are still being poisoned. “We’ve suffered so much, and we’re still suffering so much,” he says.<p>Has anyone here met anyone like this irl?
Plot-twist: our entire society is essentially a cult, parenting and education is simply indoctrination, and the same psychological glitches which are exploited in order to produce compliant citizens are also exploited by would-be cult leaders to control their unfortunate members.<p>Can't fix the problem because doing so would unravel everything we call society.