every group is maintained by a boundary and every boundary is maintained by the threat of physical or psychic violence. a cult ironically is a group that is built on NON-VIOLENCE as it disowns its violence into a shadowy border
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clear protocols can be gamed despite their meritocracy. they can feel fake, like american “how are you” small talk. or kids who can ONLY take tests. a cult on the other hand is built on the divinity of hooman judgement
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there is virtuous intent here, just as there was with philosopher kings but hoomans make for poor load bearing structures just like they make for poor batteries. they do not PRODUCE meaning/energy, they CONSUME it
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the benefit of a clearly violent protocol of engagement such as when hunting a mouse of a duel between hoomans is that because the violence is legible it is CONTAINED.
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a cult on the other hand has capacity for unbounded violence because it doesn’t think it is violent. just like tic-tacs claim to have no sugar even though they are pure sugar. each individual serving is rounded to 0
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cults are neither good or bad. baby hoomans for example are born into Edens that are maintained by the threat of infinite violence should the child be threatened.
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many everyday systems such ad country or company are also cults. though only to the individuals distant from the border. the politicians and sociopaths who manipulate the border see the border clearly. however for most the border is too abstract a concept
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a border that is a million miles away is akin to a shadowy border. when the cell gets too big, it goes through civil war and divides to avoid implosion. the closer borders provide a sense of home that prevents individual actors from using other parts of the home as garbage dumps
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a large cell is maintained only by artificially replicating the feeling of home by shortening the distance to the supreme leader. e.g. hanging his portrait in your house
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this sense of constantly being watched and pressured to do the “right” things (according to the morality of the in-group) prevents the accumulation of free radicals that threaten to destabilize the system and plunge everyone into chaos
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however, just like an overly sterile system that creates a death-reaction to peanuts in a child, the elimination of radicals also eliminates freedom. the system is both bloated with excessive resources but brittle.
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a mass kool aid suicide for example is an internal immune system overreaction. a cytokine storm is released in response to an innocuous piece of new information. “Jan 1 2000 has arrived and we are not all dead”
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at the end, the implosion of a cult is built on one fatal error. the individual playing God leading a Chosen Group on a Holy Mission it is a misinterpretation of the Neverending Story as Ultimate story. it sees the documentary as too boring. and to spice it up, it starts a War
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