I am in no way saying that I think people who get trapped in cults are or were ever stupid (not sure if it comes across that way at all, but I wanted to make that very clear), rather I know there’s some bananas psychological methodology to coercing people into them and I’d very much like to know the breakdown of it.
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The same way someone ends up in an abusive relationship. You’re love-bombed in the beginning, then slowly isolated from any outside support system.
Once you’re in, there is an intense pressure to conform that typically involves manipulation and gaslighting.
If you start to question, you’re the problem. You’re the crazy one. And when literally everyone around you tells you you’re wrong, you believe them. Peer pressure is one helluva drug.
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