Obedience isn’t always shown in the face of evil.....
Cults
“Whatever any member of a cult has done, you and I could be recruited or seduced into doing--under the right or wrong conditions. The majority of "normal, average, intelligent" individuals can be led to engage in immoral, illegal, irrational, aggressive and self destructive actions that are contrary to their values or personality--when manipulated situational conditions exert their power over individual dispositions.”
- Zimbardo
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo talks about the nature of cults in an article titled “Cults want to own your mind and body”. This article talks about how religious and social-political cults have one goal: to own you. Recruitment, indoctrination and retention or members is an extreme example of social influence. To get the power over members and have them obey, cult leaders provide a “total situation” – members live in a way which enables the cult to take place of any former friends or family
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