Posted on 08/25/2021 6:54:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
“If you’re a cult and you want to recruit wealthy people, you can buy data, find out who’s depressed, who’s anxious, and you can target people.”
University of Amsterdam researchers confirm that as people become more indoctrinated into a radical group, alternate points of view are less likely to sway them.
But that’s not to say you shouldn’t try: In a Nantes University study, 58 percent of former cult members reported that some social intervention, like a conversation with a friend or loved one, helped set them on the path to leaving.
These kinds of conversations are more likely to hit home if the person you’re talking with is internally questioning — even just a tiny bit.
The gradual cascade of doubt is perhaps critical to whether adherents can get themselves out of a cult for good. At Nantes University, a team of researchers identified three doubt-generating factors that may compel people to leave cults:
Becoming disillusioned with the leadership
Feeling abused
Losing status within the group
As these ideological cracks start to form, friends and loved ones need to be careful about how they proceed.
Some great questions to ask include:
Where was the person in life when they first heard about the group?
Did they always think the leader was supreme, or were they initially skeptical?
By asking about these kinds of memories, “you’re helping people to have perspective on the fact that they're fanatical true believers. You’re reconnecting with their identity before they got programmed,” Hassan explains.
By asking about these kinds of memories, “you’re helping people to have perspective on the fact that they're fanatical true believers. You’re reconnecting with their identity before they got programmed,”
(Excerpt) Read more at inverse.com ...
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"You don’t even have to leave your living room to join a group like QAnon, which began on the notorious online forum 4chan. According to one poll, some 15 percent of Americans believe in QAnon, thanks partly to the operations promoting its dogma. (Adherents believe that Donald Trump is crusading against a global ring of child sex traffickers...)
"NXIVM, a cult founded by convicted child sex trafficker Keith Raniere..." Inverse seems to miss the irony of calling something a cult because it opposes cultic behavior.
We’re all socialist now.
Certainly explains why a Branch Covidian would be walking alone wearing a mask; they’re getting their reinforcement from the digital world, not the real world right in front of them.
repetition
The Fauci cult.
Half this country will need deprogramming.
It’s strong among the Branch Covidians with the masks and endless harping
Get your boosters!
Get your boosters!
If you don’t you’re selfish and a murderer!
I escaped the cable news cult.
It wasn’t so difficult once I escaped the RINO Cult.
If Fauxchi said eating our own 💩 will eradicate COVID lots of schmucks will believe it. “Eat your doody, it’s your duty” or “save our species, injest your feces”
All hail the great and might god king Fauci.
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