How Does a Cult Leader Develop?

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Ma, i think if we just, let's just say, take that one to three % of the population that are cycopad they just don't give a shit. And it justtake o set those aside. I think most people are convinced they're doing the right thing. This was enoroy bommister's discovery in interviewing cereal killers and an rapus in prison. They were massively high self esteem and t to a man, and they were pretty much all men. So this gets to, you know, bob trivers theory about deception and self deception.

Shermer and Theroux discuss: how documentary films are made • religious fanaticism and why people believe • UFO cults, end-times sects, and cognitive dissonance • Scientology: religion or cult? • neo-Nazis and anti-Semitism • prisons, pornography, and prostitution • Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Savile • self-help movements and gurus • deception and self-deception • social proof and human conformity • are humans naturally rational, irrational, or both?

Louis Theroux is a genre-defining documentary filmmaker best known for his explorations of controversial and complex topics. Using a gentle questioning style and an informal approach, Louis has shone light on intriguing beliefs, behaviors, and institutions by getting to know the people at the heart of them — from the officers and inmates at San Quentin prison to the extreme believers of the Westboro Baptist Church; from male porn performers in California to young women with eating disorders in London.