06-03-2017, 12:00 AM
An area I have experience with are cults. After exploring a few, I eventually had to predict what's next. This meant I had to think like a cult leader; it's good stuff. It was so good that I started my own cult. Let me explain how I did that:
1. Finding a basis for my cult: I became an expert in the topic I was using as my foundation of belief.
2. Creating my image: making myself appear knowledgable by having profound experiences within the topic of choice.
3. Recruit: every leader requires followers, meaning I needed to be nice to some people. I won't get far if I'm too mean; I had to be conventional enough to appeal to people, but controversial enough to set a tone of obedience.
4. Educate: sell my interpretation of the belief I'm using and refuse deviation from my interpretation.
5. Limit individual thought: people are dangerous when they think for themselves. Some freedom of thought is necessary to sell the image I'm not a dictator, but the revolutionaries need to be swiftly addressed (or that attitude escalates as quickly as lunchroom food fights).
6. Maintenance: developing personal relationships is tedious. Instead, I pick a few favorites to work with (those most easily influenced) and I have them push my agenda to the masses. Less work for me and enhances my image as now it's not myself saying I'm awesome; but through the actions of others they are saying I am awesome and others should support me.
7. Rewards: if I'm done things right, I will have social power by being the leader and amassing a following, and I also have access to my choice of mate.
Notes:
Every cult leader is different with regard to what drives them. The enemy of Sorcery (can't remember how to spell his name, L-something) runs workshops and that's more for profit. In that case, the leader desires money.
Other places that don't seek financial rewards are particularly fascinating. Why do something if not for money? There's an internal need for power. For me, I need(ed) an external source of power to validate my internal feelings of inferiority. As a child I was taken advantage of and instead of trying to help others, I became an adult who betrays others. I never learned how to mature, only remaining a child-at-heart because I haven't had an adult to model mature behavior. Essentially, I was abandoned and unwanted; I never learned how to love people because I wasn't loved (it's really quite sad that this is true for many people).
I found vulnerable people and believed in them until they supported my vision. Once they believed in my vision and invested time and energy into my vision, I could easily treat them poorly because they believed in me and it's much more difficult to leave something once you're invested. Good people will always hope that things will change or get better so they stick around and put up with my manipulative ways. If I were nice to them and supported individual thought and creative freedom then they wouldn't help me support my vision because they would be manifesting their own vision. This is how I kept people chained to me: fostering a negative self-image (creating a need for external validation) and dependency (I would break them down, then build them up in the image I desired).
Strong leaders support individual visions while fostering their own personal vision. Like the knights of the round table, it is possible to have a group of leaders work together (unlike the United Nations xD). Finding mature leaders is no easy task, but it seems like it could be possible.
That's how I switched over from cults to world domination. By believing in humanity and sharing all my secrets. The path to freedom is transparency, not mystery. I'm no longer a mysterious man; now I'm a flamboyant human being.
1. Finding a basis for my cult: I became an expert in the topic I was using as my foundation of belief.
2. Creating my image: making myself appear knowledgable by having profound experiences within the topic of choice.
3. Recruit: every leader requires followers, meaning I needed to be nice to some people. I won't get far if I'm too mean; I had to be conventional enough to appeal to people, but controversial enough to set a tone of obedience.
4. Educate: sell my interpretation of the belief I'm using and refuse deviation from my interpretation.
5. Limit individual thought: people are dangerous when they think for themselves. Some freedom of thought is necessary to sell the image I'm not a dictator, but the revolutionaries need to be swiftly addressed (or that attitude escalates as quickly as lunchroom food fights).
6. Maintenance: developing personal relationships is tedious. Instead, I pick a few favorites to work with (those most easily influenced) and I have them push my agenda to the masses. Less work for me and enhances my image as now it's not myself saying I'm awesome; but through the actions of others they are saying I am awesome and others should support me.
7. Rewards: if I'm done things right, I will have social power by being the leader and amassing a following, and I also have access to my choice of mate.
Notes:
Every cult leader is different with regard to what drives them. The enemy of Sorcery (can't remember how to spell his name, L-something) runs workshops and that's more for profit. In that case, the leader desires money.
Other places that don't seek financial rewards are particularly fascinating. Why do something if not for money? There's an internal need for power. For me, I need(ed) an external source of power to validate my internal feelings of inferiority. As a child I was taken advantage of and instead of trying to help others, I became an adult who betrays others. I never learned how to mature, only remaining a child-at-heart because I haven't had an adult to model mature behavior. Essentially, I was abandoned and unwanted; I never learned how to love people because I wasn't loved (it's really quite sad that this is true for many people).
I found vulnerable people and believed in them until they supported my vision. Once they believed in my vision and invested time and energy into my vision, I could easily treat them poorly because they believed in me and it's much more difficult to leave something once you're invested. Good people will always hope that things will change or get better so they stick around and put up with my manipulative ways. If I were nice to them and supported individual thought and creative freedom then they wouldn't help me support my vision because they would be manifesting their own vision. This is how I kept people chained to me: fostering a negative self-image (creating a need for external validation) and dependency (I would break them down, then build them up in the image I desired).
Strong leaders support individual visions while fostering their own personal vision. Like the knights of the round table, it is possible to have a group of leaders work together (unlike the United Nations xD). Finding mature leaders is no easy task, but it seems like it could be possible.
That's how I switched over from cults to world domination. By believing in humanity and sharing all my secrets. The path to freedom is transparency, not mystery. I'm no longer a mysterious man; now I'm a flamboyant human being.