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I mean it’s far larger than a normal cult and not centralized around a figure, but i get where you’re coming from.
by BriggyDwiggs42 3y ago
I mean it’s far larger than a normal cult and not centralized around a figure, but i get where you’re coming from.
- piva00 3y agoI keep wondering if the internet age + social media is helping to create another kind of cult, a decentralised new type of cultish beliefs without necessarily a single charismatic leader but a network of them feeding each other. It's happening with conspiracy theories, there's no single central figure commanding them but a stochastic machine reeling people in, which then feedbacks into itself. Nofap has definitely traces of cultish behaviour, I'd like a new word to describe such movements because it seems they will only increase over time.
- fmobus 3y ago> It's happening with conspiracy theories, there's no single central figure commanding them but a stochastic machine reeling people in, which then feedbacks into itself. Interesting view. Kinda reminds me of stuff in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.