These were my thoughts exactly as I was reading Chris's post. Everyone so desperately wants to belong to a tribe. I am wary of groups due to childhood bullying and this wariness has served me well during this hysterical era. I am not getting sucked in by either side and can maintain some rational thoughts outside of the peddled narrative…
These were my thoughts exactly as I was reading Chris's post. Everyone so desperately wants to belong to a tribe. I am wary of groups due to childhood bullying and this wariness has served me well during this hysterical era. I am not getting sucked in by either side and can maintain some rational thoughts outside of the peddled narratives.
Beyond this, why does everyone want someone else to do their thinking for them? Maybe it makes them feel safe if they hold what they believe to be the "right answer."
I'm beginning to wonder whether perhaps there's a cult out there to snag *all* of us. We think we're above that because we'd never join the Christians or NXVIM or QAnon, but then along comes something that speaks to our psychological weakness - on the loony left's side, the almost obsessive need for 'inclusivity' and the fear you might otherwise be 'oppressing' a 'marginalized group'.
The left strikes me as being a collection of cults, although not everyone on the left is part of one, or any. There's the antiracism cult; the trans cult; the feminism cult, the anti-colonialism cult; the queer cult (which is very amorphous). I don't pay as much attention to the right anymore but clearly Trump is a cult leader as is QAnon.
Someone else help me out: Are there right-wing cults besides these two you're seeing?
These were my thoughts exactly as I was reading Chris's post. Everyone so desperately wants to belong to a tribe. I am wary of groups due to childhood bullying and this wariness has served me well during this hysterical era. I am not getting sucked in by either side and can maintain some rational thoughts outside of the peddled narratives.
Beyond this, why does everyone want someone else to do their thinking for them? Maybe it makes them feel safe if they hold what they believe to be the "right answer."
For me my thought is often, why should that issue belong to a political party or its default current ideology?
I'm beginning to wonder whether perhaps there's a cult out there to snag *all* of us. We think we're above that because we'd never join the Christians or NXVIM or QAnon, but then along comes something that speaks to our psychological weakness - on the loony left's side, the almost obsessive need for 'inclusivity' and the fear you might otherwise be 'oppressing' a 'marginalized group'.
The left strikes me as being a collection of cults, although not everyone on the left is part of one, or any. There's the antiracism cult; the trans cult; the feminism cult, the anti-colonialism cult; the queer cult (which is very amorphous). I don't pay as much attention to the right anymore but clearly Trump is a cult leader as is QAnon.
Someone else help me out: Are there right-wing cults besides these two you're seeing?
Agreed.