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“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.”

― Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
tags: cults, delusion, extremism, fanaticism, fanatics, guerrilla-decontextualism, madness, mental-health, neurosis, political-extremism, psychosis, religious-extremism, self-deception, zealots
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