159: Cults & Cultures
Conspirituality
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The Transition to a Cult With No Leader
The transition to this QAnon phenomenon has had a huge impact on how multiple fields are thinking about cults, political movements, undo influence. I think it's become difficult to talk about this without sort of falling prey to what seemed like cliches or half-baked neuroscience references. But the social media amplification of the worst impulses of human beings seems to me as that rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem.
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