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I am very concerned about climate change, and I am somewhat EA adjacent. But it is not accidental because isolation is one of the most important techniques of

by kiba 3y ago

I am very concerned about climate change, and I am somewhat EA adjacent. But it is not accidental because isolation is one of the most important techniques of cult mind control. The point of Sequences is the same point as Dianetics it is supposed to rewrite the way you communicate so you just can’t relate to “wogs” (the rest of us) and can only talk to true believers. Wow. This is just weird.

tuatoru 3y ago
In what ways?
- PaulHoule 3y ago
  That person should find a copy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapping:_America%27s_Epidemic_of_Sudden_Personality_Change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapping:_America%27s_Epidemic... I read the first edition circa 1989 when people still remembered the moonies. When LSD got fashionable in the 1960s parents blamed it for what seemed like sudden personality change (Straight A student athlete now smokes dope all the time, grows their hair long, gets the crabs, etc.) but after the crackdown all the psychedelic bands either went under like the Beatles or changed the way the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd did. By the 1970s the fear was much more that your kid would get ambushed at the airport and brainwashed or maybe even kidnapped like Patty Hearst and transformed into a revolutionary. I found out about the 1995 edition circa 2005 or so and though first “gee that issue wasn’t so salient then” but no you had groups like Aum Shirikyo, Al Quadea, etc. that were not so prominent in terms of numbers but highly dangerous in behavior. The Reaganite sirge in inequality makes EA quite different from the Scientology of old (which wanted to drain people of their money and then make them work like slaves) because back then it was worth emptying the wallets of ordinary people. An EA club at a place like Stanford on the other hand is really a potemkin village that creates the appearance of a movement, what matters in a group of 30 of them is 2 rich kid whales, the other 28 are there just to make it look like there is movement. (E.g. Scientology has moved into big ticket donations because they found ‘working people like slaves’ isn’t that profitable). What happened to Patty Hearst is close to the right idea for a cult in 2023 except you don’t want to kidnap them and encircle them, you want to encircle them in their own environment.

by kiba 3y ago

tuatoru 3y ago

In what ways?

PaulHoule 3y ago
That person should find a copy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapping:_America%27s_Epidemic_of_Sudden_Personality_Change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapping:_America%27s_Epidemic... I read the first edition circa 1989 when people still remembered the moonies. When LSD got fashionable in the 1960s parents blamed it for what seemed like sudden personality change (Straight A student athlete now smokes dope all the time, grows their hair long, gets the crabs, etc.) but after the crackdown all the psychedelic bands either went under like the Beatles or changed the way the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd did. By the 1970s the fear was much more that your kid would get ambushed at the airport and brainwashed or maybe even kidnapped like Patty Hearst and transformed into a revolutionary. I found out about the 1995 edition circa 2005 or so and though first “gee that issue wasn’t so salient then” but no you had groups like Aum Shirikyo, Al Quadea, etc. that were not so prominent in terms of numbers but highly dangerous in behavior. The Reaganite sirge in inequality makes EA quite different from the Scientology of old (which wanted to drain people of their money and then make them work like slaves) because back then it was worth emptying the wallets of ordinary people. An EA club at a place like Stanford on the other hand is really a potemkin village that creates the appearance of a movement, what matters in a group of 30 of them is 2 rich kid whales, the other 28 are there just to make it look like there is movement. (E.g. Scientology has moved into big ticket donations because they found ‘working people like slaves’ isn’t that profitable). What happened to Patty Hearst is close to the right idea for a cult in 2023 except you don’t want to kidnap them and encircle them, you want to encircle them in their own environment.