How to survive a Cult (From a Survivor) or HOW TO AVOID BEING A HANDMAIDEN.
A lot of you are really concerned about the new SCOTUS pick and are fearful of cultish power being expressed over your daily lives and are probably wondering how to resist this.
It's pretty simple really.
HOW TO SURVIVE CULTS and CULTISH PEOPLE.
First, understand that fundamentalism is patently absurd. Its ideas are toxic, myopic, and self-defeating adding little or no value at all into the society in which it exists. Calling it out as such is important.
One must immediately understand that fundamentalism cannot survive with 'other thoughts'. The fundamentalist must cut a person off from the world entirely for the brainwashing to begin. Any and all outside thought, be it political thought, philosophical thought, and artistic expression cripples it. It falls apart.
BE LOUD!
Second, fundamentalism has a natural inflection point to where it either explodes and causes harm (9/11, etc.) or implodes - and the member simply walks away. It's easy for it to implode due to the introduction of the aforementioned. It also breaks down when it's members or those under its influence get a boyfriend/girlfriend, get a new job, etc.
INVEST IN SOCIETY AT LARGE
Third, in times like these and with people like this, it is highly imperative to openly express your opinions, your compassion, your artistic expressions, your innate humanness than ever, and understand while ideas cannot be destroyed, they can be challenged with better ideas.
Some of what they say can feel right, at times. They target the weak, the poor, and the uneducated. They use emotion and rhetorical flourish, imagery, and your darker inclinations to fear 'other' to recruit. Beware this type of influence, the charismatic nature of their leaders, it's absolute snake oil. It's deception in it's highest form and power is seductive.
DON'T BE FOOLED
Fourth, their leaders are inherently cowardly. While they may recruit 'true believers' to their cause, they don't really believe what it is they're preaching. Their powerful rhetoric aside, these people are after wealth, power, and it's the recruited that are the most dangerous. Where they offer security, we must counter-offer their potential recruits FREEDOM and all the tempestuousness that implies.
They can be resisted. They can fail. We can guarantee that this happens by simply rejecting their beliefs by our own beliefs and actions toward our fellow citizens.
CHOOSE TO BE FREE. CHOOSE TO FIGHT.
It's pretty simple really.
HOW TO SURVIVE CULTS and CULTISH PEOPLE.
First, understand that fundamentalism is patently absurd. Its ideas are toxic, myopic, and self-defeating adding little or no value at all into the society in which it exists. Calling it out as such is important.
One must immediately understand that fundamentalism cannot survive with 'other thoughts'. The fundamentalist must cut a person off from the world entirely for the brainwashing to begin. Any and all outside thought, be it political thought, philosophical thought, and artistic expression cripples it. It falls apart.
BE LOUD!
Second, fundamentalism has a natural inflection point to where it either explodes and causes harm (9/11, etc.) or implodes - and the member simply walks away. It's easy for it to implode due to the introduction of the aforementioned. It also breaks down when it's members or those under its influence get a boyfriend/girlfriend, get a new job, etc.
INVEST IN SOCIETY AT LARGE
Third, in times like these and with people like this, it is highly imperative to openly express your opinions, your compassion, your artistic expressions, your innate humanness than ever, and understand while ideas cannot be destroyed, they can be challenged with better ideas.
Some of what they say can feel right, at times. They target the weak, the poor, and the uneducated. They use emotion and rhetorical flourish, imagery, and your darker inclinations to fear 'other' to recruit. Beware this type of influence, the charismatic nature of their leaders, it's absolute snake oil. It's deception in it's highest form and power is seductive.
DON'T BE FOOLED
Fourth, their leaders are inherently cowardly. While they may recruit 'true believers' to their cause, they don't really believe what it is they're preaching. Their powerful rhetoric aside, these people are after wealth, power, and it's the recruited that are the most dangerous. Where they offer security, we must counter-offer their potential recruits FREEDOM and all the tempestuousness that implies.
They can be resisted. They can fail. We can guarantee that this happens by simply rejecting their beliefs by our own beliefs and actions toward our fellow citizens.
CHOOSE TO BE FREE. CHOOSE TO FIGHT.
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