The photo above reflects what people are afraid of, and why they submit to false narratives. This photo is of a "struggle session" in Maoist China during the Cultural Revolution. The victim is accused of ideological impurity. In today's BLM parlance, the shaming and social isolation would be for perceived racism. It is not based on reality, but only on identity politics. (Source: Wikipedia Commons)
In this post I will continue to refer to the item I posted the other day on the suburban mass confession of "white guilt" that took place in Bethesda, Maryland. It was a creepy incident of initiation in which you can see four truths revealed about cults and cult activity. We owe it to ourselves to ask first if the participants are behaving like cult recruits. And then we have to ask if the organization to which they are pledging is behaving like a cult. Below I note four hard similarities.
Cult operations always cover up an appetite for raw power with a cover story that sounds very uncontroversial. Deception is always cover for a power grab. Is that the case with the organization that calls itself "Black Live Matter?" Well, just go to its website and you’ll soon figure out that hardcore socialism, or Marxism, is its actual, avowed agenda. Ultimately, socialism is about one thing: too much power in the hands of too few people. Marxists in America have made no secret of their determination to undermine the individual rights inherent in the Constitution. So when you see huge agendas on the BLM website that are traditionally communist -- like “sustainable transformation” and defunding the police and even its goal of replacing the family with collectivist forms of childrearing -- well, its veil gets a lot thinner.
Cult mechanics always involve psychological manipulation. Coercive thought reform is at work in the Bethesda video. It uses a hypnotic chant, as well as guilt and shaming and the weaponization of loneliness to conjure up the illusion of majority support. The recruits have set themselves up for ostracism by the movement if they dare to re-think anything. There is no respect for the principle of free thought or any exchange of ideas. The movement is highly manipulative and emotionally coercive.
The recruit is ordered to become a deployable agent for the cult by promising to bring others in to it. When the Bethesdans took their pledge, part of it was "to do everything in my power to educate my community." That's a pledge to proselytize. This assignment is essential to cults. It grows the mass/mob and empowers the cult's totalitarian leaders. It always happens under the guise of something that sounds reasonable. Their behavior also brings to mind one of Saul Alinsky’s callous “Rules for Radicals:” to use people’s goodwill against them.
We see the cultic practice of predatory alienation: forcing people to disavow loved ones. The New York Times recently published an op-ed telling white “allies” of BLM that they must prove their loyalty by texting “relatives and loved ones telling them you will not be visiting them or answering phone calls until they take significant action in supporting black lives either through protest or financial contributions.” This is emotional blackmail, meant to isolate people and meddle in personal relationships. That's a common pattern in socialism as well.
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