Cults Like Us Quotes

“Scrooby”
― Jane Borden, Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America

“the American Monomyth undermines our nation’s founding ideology, democracy. It subconsciously encourages the public to forgo the messy, laborious, and painstaking process of cooperation and compromise by instead waiting for a superhero—and then granting that figure unlimited and unchecked power.”
― Jane Borden, Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America

“Research consistently finds that social connection leads to happiness and physical health, while isolation results in loneliness and death.”
― Jane Borden, Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America