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628: Amanda Montell | Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

The Jordan Harbinger Show

CHAPTER

I've Never Been in a Cult Movie, but I Can't Help but Rubber Neck It

I've never been in a cult. I don't know anyone outside of people that have come to me on the show that have been in one. And yet i can't help but rubber neck what's going on here. We might not all fall for the same type of coltish influence, but these techniques of manipulation really spare no one. It says so much about how badly human beings want to connect with one another and want to engage in sort of culty as linguistic and otherwise.

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