Men, it has been well said, think in herds. It will be seen that they go mad in herds, while

they only recover their senses slowly and one by one. A quote by Charles McKay. Welcome to part

two of this two-part mini-series on cult psychology where we're going to look at the

broader epistemic applications of the lessons that we explored in part one.

What I want to really focus in on in part two is that cult dynamics are everywhere in modern society and also throughout all of human history.

If you just take a look. So usually when we say the word

cult people think oh he's talking about Scientology or Jonestown or the moonies or Jehovah's Witnesses or some crazy outlandish

fringe conspiracy theorist groups out there

that believe crazy things and do crazy things

that have nothing to do with me and have nothing to do with my organization,

nothing to do with my business, nothing to do with my religion,

nothing to do with my sports team or anything like that.

But you probably don't think of when I say the word cult, Buddhism, yoga, science, self-help,

atheism, rationalism, materialism, capitalism, Wall Street,

academia, politics, libertarians, pickup, corporations, consumerism, marketing, mainstream media,

mainstream norms and culture, ethics, morality, abortion, fashion, language, psychotherapy, YouTube channels, Twitter, Facebook,

Medicine, Family, Abusive Relationships, Homophobia, homophobia, the church, whatever church you belong to, the military,

sports.

Yet all of these areas of life are infested with cult dynamics.

And so while in part one of this mini series,

what I wanted to focus on was sort of drawing a sharp distinction

between a cult and not a cult and that can be very useful it can be very

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