This brings up the concept of "Kool-Aid". I'm not talking about the Jonestown suicide, but about social groups that think too highly of themselves to accept cri

This brings up the concept of "Kool-Aid". I'm not talking about the Jonestown suicide, but about social groups that think too highly of themselves to accept criticism. Such communities tend to be viciously intolerant of outsiders, hostile to internal dissent, and deeply hypocritical, especially among the leadership. These false utopias are so unpleasant to deal with and the people who reach high positions in them are so hideous that one develops a reflexive dislike of anything that looks "utopian". Afghanistan, under the Taliban, was a utopia. So was the Soviet Union. So is corporate capitalism, if a relatively bland one.