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Originally Posted by Igzy
It's like a cake, there are several ingredients. ME Barber, Chinese culture, fanaticism, misplaced earnestness, ambition, hubris, and what John Myer called "simple group dynamics."
Once a system takes root that defines blind following as a virtue, and asking questions as a vice, leaders can pretty much lead the group around by the nose, especially when you back it up with threats of "1000 years in outer darkness."
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There's no getting around it. It's a cult mentality. By definition.
The LRC is not the first or currently only place this is happening. There have been a lot of personality cults, from the benign, like the Worldwide Church of God, to the lethal, like the Branch Davidians.