I get extremely suspicious of people when I discover that there's some guy whose work they're super into and have made the foundation of their personal philosophy. I do this even if the guy is someone whose work I like, and even if they're someone I like personally.
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Mmm, not sure. Follower effect is massive and necessary, but for coercive cults (culty dynamics that hurt people's self-esteem/security), don't they need to have some some kind of authoritarianism somewhere (even if that's just around the guru's own internal conflicts/hangups)?
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Yes; my impression is that the emergent dynamics hook the leader dude into the role (if he wasn’t already wanting it and if he’s not too resistant). Lots of people want to sub.
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@warmbott: I couldn’t think of any good examples for the bottom-up cults — tee hee — but this sort of thing might count? -
it does. it's so disturbing. the only way i can think of avoiding this is by increasing signaling costs but then eventually even that would stop becoming a barrier. thanks for the tag!
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