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Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
The ‘constantly expanding market’ first opened in the New World by the fur traders is still expanding – no longer so much by expansions of territory or population, but by the calculated outdating, outmoding, and degradation of goods and by the hysterical self-dissatisfaction of consumers that is indigenous to an exploitive economy.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Norman Retasket, a survivor of the Kamloops school, observed, “If I told the same story three years ago,”35 about what happened at the school, it would have been seen as “fiction.” Now his stories are believed. “The story hasn’t changed,” he said. “The listener has changed.”
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