How To Recognize The Cult Mindset In Yourself And Others

The Cult of Political Correctness
Consider for a moment today’s culture, which is saturated with the constant agitation of political correctness. It rarely allows for any real discussion or debate without automatic vilification of those deemed politically incorrect. Sadly, this is especially true in the very place where there is a tradition of people expecting to engage in real debate: the college campus.

We can’t deny that political correctness has a lot of disruptive effects on discourse, such as inducing self-censorship that can cause us to feel socially and mentally isolated; manipulation of our basic fear of ostracism through the threat of smears; promotion of mob rule; and an authoritarian nature that promotes the power elites who use it.

Wait, those features are all rather cult-like, no? This acceptance of the anti-thought nature of political correctness is pretty much everywhere: 95 percent of the mass media promote it, 95 percent of celebrity culture promotes it, and obviously, on college campuses, the academics are 95 percent in compliance with political correctness.

You can’t deny that cult-like tribunals against “wrongthink” are pretty much everywhere––in the media, in celebrity culture, in our legislatures, among judges, in human resource departments all over the corporate world, and most obviously, on college campuses, where youth are scared to death of being ostracized for expressing a politically incorrect thought.

Consider also how many Americans mindlessly parrot the perceived popular opinion along with its empty talking points that are never up for debate. In fact, there’s very little debate happening today. When real debate happens, it gets shouted down or pushed into a corner of the internet dubbed the “intellectual dark web.” Increasingly, our minds seem to be operating in a dangerous state of isolation, especially with increasing censorship and control over our conversations by mass media and tech titans. How is such constant censorship not cult-like?
 
What should most shock us is how often Americans seem to increasingly mimic many of the behaviors of cult recruits: self-censorship, peer-modeled behaviors, emotions ruling their sense of reason, obedience to the mob, and adulation of politically correct idols and celebrities. All of these behaviors are exhibited in the Jonestown death tape, as Jones rationalized “revolutionary suicide” and his followers obeyed.

Obviously, the magnitude of what happened there is far, far greater, but the path we’re on as a society is eerily similar if you stop to think it through. Just as cultists check their brains at the door, too many Americans have likewise ceded their right to free speech on the thin promise of freedom from ostracism. That is a bad and dangerous deal that never ends well.

Thought Reform Is Not Going to Go Away
There was a lot of cult activity in the 1960s and ‘70s that got worldwide attention. It included the Manson “family” slayings and the Patty Hearst kidnapping, as well as the Jonestown massacre. In the wake of all of that, the American Psychological Association (APA) asked cult expert Singer to head a task force to come up with a report that would help expose cult methods and tactics. It could therefore serve as a resource to help average Americans keep their minds free of exploitative and coercive thought reform. It would also build awareness of the tactics of cult leaders.
 
kudzu said:
What should most shock us is how often Americans seem to increasingly mimic many of the behaviors of cult recruits: self-censorship, peer-modeled behaviors, emotions ruling their sense of reason, obedience to the mob, and adulation of politically correct idols and celebrities. All of these behaviors are exhibited in the Jonestown death tape, as Jones rationalized “revolutionary suicide” and his followers obeyed.

Obviously, the magnitude of what happened there is far, far greater, but the path we’re on as a society is eerily similar if you stop to think it through. Just as cultists check their brains at the door, too many Americans have likewise ceded their right to free speech on the thin promise of freedom from ostracism. That is a bad and dangerous deal that never ends well.

Thought Reform Is Not Going to Go Away
There was a lot of cult activity in the 1960s and ‘70s that got worldwide attention. It included the Manson “family” slayings and the Patty Hearst kidnapping, as well as the Jonestown massacre. In the wake of all of that, the American Psychological Association (APA) asked cult expert Singer to head a task force to come up with a report that would help expose cult methods and tactics. It could therefore serve as a resource to help average Americans keep their minds free of exploitative and coercive thought reform. It would also build awareness of the tactics of cult leaders.
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This is one of the reasons I am pro-Trump. Clinton would have ramped witch-hunts to new heights, and populated the Democratic party with idiots like that Cortez abomination. Actually I am truly surprised that you're not more forgiving of Trump, he is sticking with the Saudis and giving a right royal kicking to the mad mullahs, surely you must like that?
 
OH GOD HILLARY CLINTON AS PRESIDENT I JUST HAD THIS APPARITION....

She would toss KSA under the bus in a heartbeat for politics.
I have to admire Trump on that -it would be soo easy to give into the Saudi haters
 
kudzu said:
I think its projection that thinks its clever or deep.
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I think that's specious crap, I can't see how anybody can live as long as you and accept PC as anything other than a cult and crude mind control. You must have lived through the McCarthy era, how is that not repeating itself on the Left this time? You claim to be a conservative yet seem to adhere to most of the ludicrous tenets of Progressivism.
 
Havana Moon said:
It does an excellent job in describing much of what passed for debate these days. It starts in schools and universities and then spreads far and wide.
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There's a reason I often harp on what's happening in the schools. They don't even wait until high school anymore, they start the political indoctrination in First Grade. Our PTA was labeled as an extremist organization in our local media by our school superintendent because we had a problem with gay activists being brought in to talk to kindergartners. Our society is fucked if this shit doesn't stop soon.
 
Havana Moon said:
I think that's specious crap, I can't see how anybody can live as long as you and accept PC as anything other than mind control. You must have lived through the McCarthy era, how is that not repeating itself on the Left this time?
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He's been brainwashed. Hopeless case.
 
anonymoose said:
He's been brainwashed. Hopeless case.
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Kudzu is a woman who is very knowledgeable about the Middle East yet seems to know little about the overt brainwashing and mind control going on in Western society. Gender feminism, GLBT activists, climate alarmists, race and diversity agitators are all spouting bullshit from their fortresses in universities. It is constant and like Chinese water torture or death by a thousand cuts.
 
Havana Moon said:
I think that's specious crap, I can't see how anybody can live as long as you and accept PC as anything other than a cult and crude mind control. You must have lived through the McCarthy era, how is that not repeating itself on the Left this time? You claim to be a conservative yet seem to adhere to most of the ludicrous tenets of Progressivism.
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Didn't you know McCarthy was a vicious drunk and his claims were without merit? People who saw thru him are the same people that reject Trump because he is so transparent in his lies and manipulation.

Comparing the cult of Trump or even to those Antifa idiots to Jonestown is flakey and so obvious the same effing tactic the writer is complaining about.
 
Havana Moon said:
Kudzu is a woman who is very knowledgeable about the Middle East yet seems to know little about the overt brainwashing and mind control going on in Western society. Gender feminism, GLBT activists, climate alarmists, race and diversity agitators are all spouting bullshit from their fortresses in universities. It is constant and like Chinese water torture or death by a thousand cuts.
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Don't speak for me, you jackass.
 
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