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There was a great first-person account published in the New Yorker last year about growing up in Lyman's Family: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/m
by blueyes 6y ago
There was a great first-person account published in the New Yorker last year about growing up in Lyman's Family:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/my-childhood-in-a-cult https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/my-childhood-i...
- sandworm101 6y agoAn interesting account. But, like so many others, it follows the stereotypical pattern. Communal living? great. Family and togethernews? Love it. 'Alternative' family arrangments where kids are raised by a variet of adults? Ok, I'm not going to judge. It isn't that much different than divorced couples. Children ebing beaten as punishment? Ok, not good, but this was the 1960s and it doesn't seem any worse than what was happening everywhere else. But then the familiar pattern emerges. Young women married to older men. Women married against their will. 13 yo girls, children, married off to older men. And then that real definitive core of so many cults: Forget any sense of marriage. The cult leader is just sleeping with a cadre of young girls. Stereotypical cult established. Call CPS. Time to shut it all down.
- rpiguy 6y agoIt’s amazing how many communes depend on a cult-like figurehead just to hold together. So many are formed and dissolve because people start arguing over things like who does dishes.
- dang 6y agoDiscussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19813288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19813288