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Virginia Heffernan: Edge, Jeffrey Epstein, & the Intellectual Dark Web

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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The Black and White Thinking of Cults

E scarling is when you think of can like, oh, no, it's like a bunch of lonely people at their house. But this is people who are running our planet. I understand quite how they think of themselves as such iconoclasps. They've been on campuses since william buckley, since the fifties. We all think we're original. Yes, i keep thinking about this metaphor of that kuanon has the great awakening. A lot of cults have ideas of who's awake and who's asleep. They're the awake ones. The word woke isn't used in earnest by anyone except people trying to satirize or criticize it now. It suggested

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