Cults are not new. The fascinating thing to me is that in many cases there is no single embodied leader or even founder. Instead the charismatic leader seems to

Cults are not new. The fascinating thing to me is that in many cases there is no single embodied leader or even founder. Instead the charismatic leader seems to be the cult itself with this being facilitated through a rapid iterative feedback loop via the Internet. I think the best terminology for these might be Borg from Star Trek since they work like little Borg collectives. They develop their own little reality distortion field and then try to suck people in and "assimilate" them. Have you been "red pilled?" I've wondered if parts of the chans (e.g. /pol/) and other anonymous forums with cult-like ideologies and cultures surrounding them aren't the first examples of hive minds. Unfortunately they're pretty dystopian hive minds with the dominant emotions being hate, shame, and fear and the dominant intellectual undercurrents being nihilism, cynicism, totalitarianism, etc.