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Raive culture specifically is so based on these concepts of like peace, love, unity, respect that it really is kind of a

refuge for people. What made me really fall in love with rave culture was just that sense of

like finding belonging acceptance and a source of like unconditional love, which I think is always

something that humans are seeking. And especially in today's era and just the way the world is right

now, and as community starved us, we are particular in the United States, it's a major draw.

Church and concerts are becoming more and more synonymous, and I feel like that's happening

on both ends of the spectrum. It's not just the megachers are getting rave-ier, the raves are

getting churchier. Oh my God, yes. Yes.

This is Sounds Like a Cult, a show about the modern-day cults we all follow.

I'm Amanda Montel, author of the book Cultish, The Language of Fanaticism.

And I am Reese Oliver, Sounds Like a Colts coordinator.

Every week on this show, we discuss a different culty group from the zeitgeist, from Harry Potter to Shen Yun, to try and answer the big question.

This group sounds like a cult, but is it really?

And if so, which of our three cult categories does it fall into?

A live your life, a watcher back, or a get the fuck out.

The point of this little show right here is to poke a little fun at human search for meaning in the 21st century,

while also legitimately scrutinizing the different cultish ways that we

do that, to try to figure out if they're mostly harmless or kind of full-blown destructive.

And today, we're talking about the cult of raves.

This was a request that I received IRL from a listener in person who came to my book tour.

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