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96: Crony Beliefs by Kevin Simler

Made You Think

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The Relationship Between Cults and Politics

A cult is basically extreme shared beliefs, but it's stickier when you have some amount of crony beliefs that's more than zero. You can also only take it to so much of an extreme because there's eventually a point where the crony beliefs are too dissonant with reality. The folks who are really good at like towing that line seem to do a better like force of personality kind of thing.

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