Oddbean

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 I really can't understand how plebs still treat Apple as a religion, they seem incapacitated of seing the obvious

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 Brand name fetishism.

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 That's the why religion works so well. People kill and commit suicide with religion. To the outside observer, it seems insane. To those on the inside, it was a good decision

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 Same.

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 The modern world runs on cults.

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 Cults are not a modern invention, they're an evolutionary advantage that has always been utilized by good and bad leaders

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 There is no good use of cult manipulation. That's one of the first lies in the deck of cards.

Cults inherently shrink the capacity of people to think, by creating phobias and addictions that would not otherwise exist, wasting their lives on shit they don't need and fearing stuff they shouldn't fear.

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 I suppose "cult" implies bad. With different intentions, we'd use words like charismatic leadership or movement

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 Making up in group ephemisms is also classic cult manipulation.

Every single example I have seen in my life left damage in it's path. Psytrance parties, self help systems, Blockchain social networks. Baghwan Sri Rajneesh had a lot of useful things to say but his cars and his groupies nullified it. Bitcoin has cults attached to it as does nostr.

Nothing good comes out of them. They are all on a spectrum from distraction to assisted suicide.

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 Indeed!