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As always a really thoughtful post to read 13. I just have two things to say.
1. Being finished with cults. Yes I thought that too, and in a way that is my problem with the Steve Hassans of the world. They want to define a cult as some kind of specific aberration, but it is f**king everywhere. It's not that the cult phenomenon is a mysterious virus that infects our otherwise perfectly sane fellow humans. It is that we humans create cults because, as you said, we seem to need them. Cult-like thinking, believing in nonsense is all around us. I also have friends like you describe. I used to think it was cute and quaint, but with covid they have gone rabid and angry. Which brings me to ...
2. I think we can expect far worse than Trumpism and QAnon to come. I have a doctor friend who works at the Charite in Berlin. She told me basically that the covid pandemic is like a dry run. Wait until we get one, as basically Bill Gates has been trying to warn for years, that has the virulence of covid and the deadliness of ebola. How will people behave then? And what happens when places on Earth become inhabitable, when we start to experience serious food and water shortages? Okay sorry, I will stop now.
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