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We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult

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Re: We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult

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Post by kelseyfrog »

clouddrover wrote: post #2

Take the cult test. Apply it to a company you work at. See how you feel: https://cult-escape.com/cult-test/

I mean you could do the same thing with the abstract ideas of post-marginal revolution economics and its adherents and get a positive result so the test is obviously wrong.

Re: We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult

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Post by partiallypro »

clouddrover wrote: post #2

Take the cult test. Apply it to a company you work at. See how you feel: https://cult-escape.com/cult-test/

Honestly, apply it to your political party. I've come to see both parties can be very cultish as of late. If you leave the herd, you are immediately attacked even if it's for the smallest topic. People leave their families over it. When you start to think about it...it's starts to fall a bit into that. I think that is a more compelling argument than saying family itself is a cult, which is at the human core more than a political party.

Re: We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult

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Post by Schroedingersat »

kelseyfrog wrote: post #3
clouddrover wrote: post #2

Take the cult test. Apply it to a company you work at. See how you feel: https://cult-escape.com/cult-test/

I mean you could do the same thing with the abstract ideas of post-marginal revolution economics and its adherents and get a positive result so the test is obviously wrong.

I can't even tell if this is a poe. Well done.

Re: We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult

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Post by msla »

Aside from all the content-free "Everything I Don't Like Is A Cult" chuntering I already see, what is the point of this? I thought it was a dig at how cult-like the "anticult" deprogramming stuff was back during the last big scare in the 1980s, but it isn't that, because the victims of deprogramming sessions weren't free to leave. That was rather their big problem: They kidnapped people and held them in motel rooms and such and they pointedly weren't free to leave until they'd been psychologically broken. So the part where this says "you" (some imaginary person in this second-person fiction thing) are free to leave undercuts that point, leaving this pointless.

I do have a point, though: Saying everything is a cult is bad for the same reason saying every relationship is abusive is bad. It gives cover to the real abusers. After all, if every situation is equally terrible, there's no real reason to leave the ones which are, in point of fact, terrible. "Everywhere else is just as bad" is a powerful tool for abusers to use on their victims.

Re: We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult

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Post by 13of40 »

partiallypro wrote: post #4
clouddrover wrote: post #2

Take the cult test. Apply it to a company you work at. See how you feel: https://cult-escape.com/cult-test/

Honestly, apply it to your political party. I've come to see both parties can be very cultish as of late. If you leave the herd, you are immediately attacked even if it's for the smallest topic. People leave their families over it. When you start to think about it...it's starts to fall a bit into that. I think that is a more compelling argument than saying family itself is a cult, which is at the human core more than…

I got basically a zero score when I did it for my company (except the separation one, which I guess is analogous to quitting) but when I tried my country I got a pretty good score - 8/10

(Edit: To be clear I'm not a member of a political party so I can't try that one.)

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