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Our Society is Run By a Cult! (Seriously)
A deep dive into the cult-like structure that has spread through academia, media, and other institutions in society. We examine how it separates people from their families, controls narratives, punishes dissent, and aims to erase cultural differences. The cult exploits minority groups as a shield while actually worsening inequality. It is a descendant of European imperialism and is highly effective at inducing trauma and unhappiness in its members.
Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] negative utilitarianism, is the core moral philosophy of the cult. i. e. we will remove pain from people, and that ultimately leads to the logical conclusion , that , we need to not just kill all humans, but prevent any sentient life from ever evolving again.
Like, the cult is, I think, much more extreme than people think and, people can be like, no, he doesn't think that, you're being extreme. Go to a party with your progressive friends. Mention fertility rates are falling. Mention humanity may go extinct. I guarantee you, someone in that room is going to say is it really that bad if humanity goes extinct?
And then a number of them are going to be like, yeah, that's a good point. Is it really that bad if humanity goes extinct? If you don't realize that you are in an insane and dangerous cult, When that is a normalized idea, a normalized thought, I don't know what to say like that's like, wake up you're in the [00:01:00] people who want to end all human life.
You are a supporter of theirs. The people who take your children and put them into a lifetime of debt. You are standing this organization. They are evil. The cult is a descendant of the imperialist European cultivars. It is not a native cultural group.
This is just the newest iteration of European colonialism and genocide.
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Malcolm Collins: We do sort of live in a world today that is controlled by a cult. And it's something that we've talked about in other videos, but we've never really gone that deep on the subject because we talk about it so much that we're like, Oh, there's no use in like a single video on this, but it would make sense to go deeper in on a video.
If you. Look at the way that different cultural traditions and different religions relate to things like truth. You can begin to contextualize the urban monoculture, or the cult as we call it in [00:02:00] the terms of these religious traditions, and what you see is it behaves in a way that is very similar to some of the more either inefficient or abusive traditions but also That it is just a religion,
Simone Collins: but what's interesting about it and why this is important to talk about is never before in human history, to our knowledge, at least has a cult like structure, like crystalline structure been spreading rapidly.
through like the heart of the most powerful elements of society. I guess you could argue that Catholicism kind of did this with the Roman Empire, but I don't even think the impact is nearly as profound.
Malcolm Collins: No, not as much. And it does something very weird that no religion in history has ever done, which is it doesn't require that individuals who are supplicants to it state that they are in this cultural tradition.
So historically cultural traditions were usually mutually exclusive, or at least things that you had to [00:03:00] identify with. You had to say, if you became Jewish. Jewish now or Christian. I'm Christian now or Muslim. I'm Muslim now. The cult doesn't require this. You can be a member of the cult and call yourself whatever you want.
Identify however you want. In fact, that's one of the core things that promises that no matter how you identify yourself, that will be validated by the cult. But it. It changes all of your perspectives and the way that you have to relate to society in a way that is very c
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