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Session 221: How to Tell if You’re in a cult

Brain Software with Mike Mandel

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The Sunk Cost Fallacy

There was a situation where a woman married a guy and then slowly but surely he was isolating her from her own family. I thought, yeah, that's again, that's incrementalism of isolation. So cults isolate their adherence, the people under them. You think of the Charles Manson family at spawn ranch,. The Manson family helped her scale to the whole idea. They were going to intentionally create a race war.

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