While this is all goofy fun, I'm glad to see people are noticing there's something going on out there. (It's definitely better than everybody telling me I'm crazy.) But I can also see the outlines of trouble: just as when I used to wish people were more politically aware, and now all they know how to do is diss the government, a budding awareness of cults can lead to the "everything is a cult" bullshit (Dick Cheney, etc.) revealing the same superficial scholarship. It's like, when it comes to group think, most people today - or maybe ever in history - can't focus on anything long enough to truly understand it. They specialize in sketchy knowledge. And not only is that what cults use to get people - and they've got a lot of people now (many who don't even know they're part of the cult phenomena, like Yoga people) - but it's also how scary shit happens in retaliation,....
The madness of crowds.
Oprah deserves this treatment. She deserves even more. I just think it's a shame the Christians are doing it alone, though I'm aware Christians have always been ahead of the curve when it comes to cults. Most people don't take cultism seriously, precisely because Christians fight them - which only reveals how stupid most people are because it's that smarty-pants attitude that leaves those same people vulnerable to the cult's efforts - but (as someone who's not prejudiced, as most atheists are, about religion) I'll take all the help against NewAge I can get.
We can't count on most scientists for help,...that's for sure.
