Why is it so hard to stop cult-formation?

Sex cult leader Keith Raniere, has been convicted in New York of charges including racketeering, sex trafficking and child pornography. - bbc

Why it's so difficult to stop a cult?

Well, the western capitalist, sexual consumerist, gore-ridden 'gaming' and 'entertainment' experience, prochoice, reaction-inducing experience of 'like' buttons, emojis, shaky camera productions, shallow 'boom boom' sexually brazen 'music', amongst others, are all pretty much components of a depraved cult itself, or is required to form one isn't it. 

The west closes doors to the meaningful, spirituality, religion, community, family, equality on a socioeconomic and multicultural level on a daily basis.  People still need to feel alive, to feel passion, to have meaningful aspirations, to imagine beyond themselves. 

But with the narrowing of the pathways to the significant, and the promotion of the shallow to the depraved, the doors are immediately opened to cults, whether it be all those congregations of 'fans' swooning after MJs and BTSes, to 'cult' followings of Gotham, to the asinine followings for Apple to Sony, and so on and so forth.  All these efforts are the human psyche, drowning, and grasping at straws. 

You could say that such cults are a 'right-wing' and more extreme manifestation of the more 'central' and 'conservative' normalised depravities of society.  They are the face of 'normal society' with its pretentious masks of civility off.

So once in a while, all this sewer-spew hits critical mass, and a cult is formed, that promises an cultic experience no different from what is socially acceptable, except with no ad-breaks.  People will get to 'feel' alot, hit critical mass, and what is socially normalised is given a greater boost within it to great sexual to depraved to murderous proportions.

When you normalise evils as 'acceptable' and 'evidence of freedom', you'll end up producing more blatant and brazen examples of it.  Like i stated more than a decade ago, 'the root of all evils finds its incubatory refuge in all that is perceived to be good'. 

Yes, you do get cults across the globe, but they are abberations that do not generally find its foundation in normal life.  It is more of a result of a search for something different, or a abberation in some personal social and familial experience.  But when you make such abberations a part of normal life, as is the case in the west for quite a while now, you'll up the chances of even more depravity in cults. 

You could say that such cults are a 'right-wing' and more extreme manifestation of the more 'central' and 'conservative' normalised depravities of society.  They are the face of 'normal society' with its pretentious masks of civility off.


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