This will make you feel better: right now the #1 book on all of Amazon is Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History; I interviewed author @SteveDeaceShow today https://t.co/Er9H5nwfyH
— Tom Woods (@ThomasEWoods) April 1, 2021
Cults seek to separate you from the true church, like when our church was closed last year.
Cults seek to disassociate you, estrange you from your close, connected family members. Didn’t we see that all of last year?
Cults favor group-think above your own, individual notions or search for objective truth or objective reason. Haven’t we seen that? We’re now defined by whether you wear a mask everywhere you go. Do you wear a mask to have sex with your wife? Do you wear a mask at the gym? Do you put your kids in a mask outside? So the mask is basically an idol, like the Pan in the New Testament, where they worshipped the accessory of Philippi. Or Asherah Poles, like in the Old Testament. This is absolutely for a group of people. This has become a reason for being. It has determined their reason for being. It's given them meaning. And not just the panic porn peddlers, like Eric Feigle-Ding, who is a Harvard, non-paid nutritionist who somehow became this renowned, social media expert and demanding that the schools be closed--he's a democratic operative, actually--demanding that the schools be closed all year long because they're not safe. Meanwhile, he just move he and his family to Austria, where his wife is from, so they can go back to school. I mean, that's just politics, grifting, carpetbagging, I mean that's prostitution, brother, the oldest, you know, profession in the world. But this is different. This is religious zeal. The Karen in the culdesac. She preiously got her meaning in life by pestering you and every volunteer function at your kid's school, and it was never good enough and she wanted to know about your pieces of flare. This is different now. This is existential. This adds a life and death meaning to it, and that's one aspect of the spirit of the age here that you're up against.
If you require more characteristics or definitions of what a cult is, this is almost comprehensive:
The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.
I bet you can guess who that "living leader" is.
The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
Think of the interminable message of wearing a mask and keep 6' apart in supermarkets. The market I attend in my neck of the woods has parked a 10 x 10 traffic message board on a trailer in its parking lot, announcing the same indoor message outside in the parking lot. It is reminiscent of an ominous, extraterrestrial threat to a community that you'd see portrayed in 1950s sci-fi, B movies.
The group is preoccupied with making money.
Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
Locally, it's the Karens. Think, too, of the other shoppers in stores who charge you with jeopardizing other people's health.
Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, and debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
This is the job of the media.
The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel (for example, members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth).
Isn't Fauci doing exactly this?
The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity).
The group has a polarized us- versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society.
The group's leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations).
The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities).
The leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control them.
Members' subservience to the group causes them to cut ties with family and friends, and to give up personal goals and activities that were of interest before joining the group.
Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group.
Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
Cult is the perfect definition for all of these COVID fearmongers.
