What is the Covid cult? Four signs you need to watch out for…
Peak Prosperity
Chris Martenson
4.7 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
What we call the center mass of our culture, “the mainstream” if you will, is behaving and operating like a cult.
Without any significant institutional opposition, the full power of cult programming was unleashed on the people of the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe with devastating results.
Families were torn apart. Friendships irrevocably altered. Colleagues lost.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time to call it for what it is, folks. It's a cult. We're going to look at cults today and cult like behavior and answer the question. Are you an occult? And if you are, how do you get out of one? That's what we're doing here today. Episode 105. And by the way, thank you. Big shout out to everybody for helping us get to over 500,000 subscribers on this channel and for helping to make the book, the crash course, |
| 0:23.0 | get on the bestseller list at the Wall Street Journal. So thanks for both of those things. |
| 0:26.5 | You guys are the best. And by the way, as always, reading all your comments. So let me know |
| 0:31.2 | what you think of this. This is a really important episode because I think it helps explain |
| 0:35.5 | where we are. If you've been following me for a while, you know we talk about rats in a cage, demoralization. These are big framing ideas that help us |
| 0:43.1 | understand and orient to where we are in what is absolutely insane period of time. So this is just, |
| 0:52.6 | I went to one place called dare to doubt.org and it's a good thing. |
| 0:57.8 | It's got it's going to ask and answer some questions here. Are we in a cult? What's a cult? What do |
| 1:02.1 | mean a cult? Well, I think let's look at this. They say here, quote, wonder if you might be in a |
| 1:09.8 | cult confident that you are not? |
| 1:13.3 | Some cults show dangerous intent up front, requiring harmful or illegal initiation rights. |
| 1:19.1 | Most destructive groups appear far more appealing with unhealthy traits that slowly are revealed over time. |
| 1:25.9 | Hmm. |
| 1:27.0 | So, here's a first thing. |
| 1:29.4 | They're like, does your group show unquestioning commitment to its leader, alive or |
| 1:36.1 | debt? |
| 1:36.8 | Now, I would suggest that we did see some unquestioning commitment to certain people, |
| 1:44.0 | particularly in the context of COVID. |
| 1:45.5 | We're talking about Anthony Bouchy, who I hold in very, very low esteem. |
| 1:50.0 | This really shocked me when I saw this. |
| 1:52.5 | This came out just a few days ago as when I found it over on Twitter. |
| 1:56.5 | This was sent Friday, April 10th, 2020, and it's sent from David Bradley, who is the chairman of the Atlantic, a big MSM magazine outlet, the Atlantic, and says here, dear, hi, Tony, I send you greetings and the deepest appreciation. |
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