Why Cult Beliefs Don’t Stop When Proved Wrong
A cult called the Seekers was infiltrated by Leon Festinger to understand why they believed what they believed and how their beliefs worked
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Somewhere Over The Rainbow: Introducing The Queering of the American Child
In The Queering of the American Child you'll learn what Queer Theory is, where it comes from, how it got into schools, and what it wants to do with your children.
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Cult Language of Woke
Woke Marxism is a cult. In being a cult, it operates like an "initiate society," and the initiation into the cult is largely but not wholly accomplished through its deliberate misuse of language.
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As Below, So Above
In the Esoteric Religion known as Hermeticism, there are a number of core principles of operation, perhaps most famously the Principle of Correspondence. It’s often worded “As above, so below,” but this is only half of the principle.
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The Structure of Cults
Cults have a structure. The Woke Marxist cult is no exception: it is structured too.
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Intersectionality Is American Maoism
It isn’t possible to discuss Intersectionality without starting with Kimberlé Crenshaw, who named it. Like with most Woke Marxist ideas, though, Intersectionality is recycled and repackaged, more than once. Crenshaw is therefore the wrong person to discuss to talk about the issue, but she’s a starting place.
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The Gnostic Parasite
In the second lecture in his “Secret Religions of the West” series, Lindsay explains that these “philosophies,” including Marxism, are actually mystical Esoteric cult religions posing as science, economics, and politics, and that their success in infiltrating our religions, societies, and institutions is down to their intrinsically parasitical nature.
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The Negation of the Real
If you want to impose a totalitarian system, you have a problem on your hands: reality. The real is in your way and will eventually veto your project.
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The Workings of the Woke Cult
It has become relatively obvious that what goes by the term “Woke” refers to having been initiated into a cult.
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Wokeness and the Structure of Cults
It has become relatively obvious that what goes by the term “Woke” refers to having been initiated into a cult.
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WTF is SEL?
What the F is Social-Emotional Learning? It's a serious question. Behind all the flowery language is a history, and that history demands looking at.
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OnlySubs: Don’t Drink the Woke Kool-Aid
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I take listeners through a radio message sent from Angela Davis to Jim Jones at his compound in Guyana in 1977, a year before the gruesome end.
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OnlySubs: Why the Wokish Can’t See Woke Harms
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, I dive into the question by drawing upon psychological insights relevant to identity and the so-called "Backfire Effect" to provide an explanation and, hopefully, some useful recommendations for helping the Wokish people in your life learn to see the Woke problem for what it is.
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