The most dangerous type of cult is...

 ... the one that has convinced the world that it's not a cult.

I recently stumbled across a video on YouTube of the type "professional of such-and-such profession reviews scenes (related to the profession) from movies", more precisely "Cult Deprogrammer Reviews Cults from Movies & TV". The person being presented in the video is one Rick Alan Ross, who has been helping people escape cults since 1982.

He comments on movies and shows depicting deep cults. I couldn't help but (once again) see striking parallels to the "social justice" ideology movement that has invaded modern academia and much of society, and which has countless rabid followers and activists who will do almost anything for the ideology.

Many of the things he says in that video applies very accurately to the "social justice" communities (especially in universities and many other places). Many of the behaviors, tactics, attitudes, techniques are strikingly similar. There's the inner jargon, there's the love bombing, there's the removal of individuality and implanting collectivism in its place, the changing of oneself (discarding the old personality and adopting a new, completely different personality, including a completely different outwards appearance), there's the strong "us vs. them" mentality where outsiders are evil and the enemy, there's the isolation from the outside and the extremely heavy discouragement of even listening to outside information and outside opinions that may dissent from the ideology, or even talking to outsiders, there's the group sessions where everybody opens up to everybody else, there's the obsession with sex, there's the severe consequences from leaving the cult (such as harassment and scorn from the cultists, and the attempt at destroying the life of the dissenter).

If you search for any description or list of typical characteristics of a cult, you'll see how well the "social justice" ideology and movement fits them to a tee, as I have commented previously. (Perhaps the only major difference compared to the average cult is the lack of one single individual leader who everybody follows and adulates. However, this is not a necessity. A cult does not necessarily need a singular leader.)

I would love to know Mr Ross's opinion on whether the modern social justice movement is a cult or not. Naturally I have absolutely no idea what he would respond, but I would suspect that he would say that no, it's not a cult. He'll probably dismiss it as a silly or even preposterous idea. It might even be possible that he would be too intimidated to openly admit that it's a cult.

Some cults are relatively harmless (other than doing some psychological harm to their members), and others have been extremely dangerous. However, I would say that the most dangerous type of cult is one that successfully convinces the rest of society, the entire world, that it's not actually a cult at all.

There's an adage recited in the 1995 movie The Usual Suspects that goes like: "The greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." I commented on this very thing in a previous post, where I wrote about how the "Antifa" movement has convinced the world that it cannot be a terrorist organization because it's not an organization at all (and thus it cannot be a "terrorist" one). Which is one of the cleverest tricks they could have achieved in order to get law enforcement off their backs.

Well, the greatest trick that the modern social justice ideology movement has managed to pull is the complete avoidance of even the question being raised in society about whether it's a cult or not. There's no debate, the idea is not being brought up in any significant way, there are no expert opinions, there's essentially no criticism by the mainstream society. Even the suggestion would be considered silly and stupid by society at large, and especially the people who control it (politicians, governments, the mainstream media). Some critics (too few of them, in fact) call it a cult sometimes, but it's usually just an off-hand remark, used more like a verbal attack than a serious accusation that requires actual attention by society.

And thus, perhaps the biggest and most dangerous cult in human history has succeeded in keeping this status hidden and under the radar, so much so that pretty much nobody thinks of it as a cult, and almost nobody criticizes it as a cult, nor considers it dangerous because of its cultish behavior and characteristics. Most prominently, there are no "cult deprogrammers" who are seeking to help people leave this cult. Why? Because they don't even think of it as a cult, and thus they don't think it falls under their purview.

That's what makes it so dangerous.