I think the whole language around 'cults' is shifting in large part because of startups and in particular the work of Peter Thiel and Steve Newcomb: http://www

I think the whole language around 'cults' is shifting in large part because of startups and in particular the work of Peter Thiel and Steve Newcomb: http://www.wired.com/2014/09/run-startup-like-cult-heres/ http://www.wired.com/2014/09/run-startup-like-cult-heres/ http://blognewcomb.squarespace.com/essays/2010/10/14/cult-creation.html http://blognewcomb.squarespace.com/essays/2010/10/14/cult-cr... Steve Jobs obviously stands in a class all his own. I'd think of it this way, startups and tech disrupt easy things first then harder things. The Newspaper industry was easy pickings, tech devoured it. Now it's working on eating the taxi industry[Uber,Lyft], the auto Industry[Tesla], and the monetary & financial system[Bitcoin]. Once it devours money, which has been the traditional exclusive comport of governments, government itself will be next. After that . . . Religion. This pattern makes sense, pioneering West was often driven by a religious sentimentality. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Maybe we will start calling them NRE's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement