You Don't Do That, You're a Child Again

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When i am did my story on marshal silver as part as one of the sequences, i sat in the audience. One of his lieutenants was also a hypnotist. He got me to feel very calm and then he sort of said, you are feeling very calm now. I want you to go under now. And i found myself playing along without meaning to just because it would have been too awkward to say, Just stop itud. Et, but humans a tigt. You know this as much as anyone, like humans, we don't actyou know, there's a real social logic around aspects of behaviour. Or there's a logic to peer pressure, a,

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.