Analyzing Modern Cults
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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00:00 How many current cults are there?
08:38 What is a cult?
16:00 Charismatic & authoritarian leader
33:48 Emotional indoctrination
51:24 Isolation of followers
1:13:15 Systems of control
1:21:10 No legitimate reason to leave
1:25:05 Causing unreasonable harm
1:32:15 Hard evidence of other criteria being met
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April 17, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | So, Burdo, I've been wanting to ask you about the following groups to have you tell me if you think that they are indeed a cult or not a cult. |
| 0:11.0 | What do you say? Let's get into it. |
| 0:13.0 | That sounds intriguing. |
| 0:15.0 | This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirkana. I'm a therapist and I'm also a professor. |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Alberto Castanilla and I make stony sipping straws. |
| 0:24.0 | So, just to start off as a warm up to this, this is what motivated me to want to talk with you about this. |
| 0:31.0 | So, a poll came out by the economist or it was published in the economist and they published a bunch of beliefs. |
| 0:39.0 | You know, they pulled Americans. They're like, do you believe this? Do you not believe this? |
| 0:43.0 | And a lot of this, I think, is the result of the QAnon cult. You could call it that. |
| 0:48.0 | We'll get into whether or not we think QAnon is a cult or not. |
| 0:52.0 | So, I want you to take a guess what percentage of people believe that this is definitely or probably false. |
| 1:00.0 | So, these are people like you and me who think like you and you and I do. |
| 1:05.0 | And by contrast, the other percentage do not think like we do. |
| 1:10.0 | So, they pulled people, do you think this is true or do you think it's false? |
| 1:14.0 | Regardless of who is officially in charge of the government and other organizations, |
| 1:18.0 | there is a single group of people who secretly control events and rule the world together. |
| 1:24.0 | What percentage of people said, yeah, probably or definitely false. |
| 1:28.0 | Okay, and again, this is pulling normal, in the quote unquote, normal people like just... |
| 1:33.0 | Average Americans. Yeah, average Americans. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, I would say that the percentage that thought that it was false would probably be like 80% maybe? |
| 1:44.0 | 41. Wait, 41 thought that it was false. |
| 1:50.0 | So, almost 60% think it's true. |
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