267. Louis Theroux on Neo-Nazis, Jimmy Savile, UFO Cults, and Scientology
The Michael Shermer Show
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How Does a Cult Leader Develop?
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.
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