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Everything's a cult now

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  • Apr 22, 2024
sean illing
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The internet has fractured our world into a million little subcultures catering to the specific identities and habits of everyone online. Writer Derek Thompson believes this has led... Show More

The internet has fractured our world into a million little subcultures catering to the specific identities and habits of everyone online. Writer Derek Thompson believes this has led to a widespread cult-like mentality that has crept into all facets of modern life — pop culture, media, politics, and religion itself. He joins Sean to explain this theory, and why it’s maybe not such a bad thing.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area
Guest: Derek Thompson (@dkthomp). His podcast is Plain English, and he writes for The Atlantic.
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya · May 6, 2024
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"When you have that clear division of who is good or who is bad, that goes so deeply to what makes cults so powerful. Here's your ingroup and here is your in-group defined by the out-group. That kind of out-group animosity not only goes aerodynamic on social media for a variety of reasons. I also think it sits very well with us when we are confused about the world and how it works."
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya · May 6, 2024
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"Cults are not just for something. They are against something."
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya · May 6, 2024
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"You make that shift from fandom to cult member when your identity or membership in that group is defined by negation; defined by what you are not, by what you stand against."
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya · May 6, 2024
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"Politics now is powered more by negation than it used to be. For a lot of voters, the power of negative partisanship has made it easier for people to explain what it is they're against than it is to explain what they are for."
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya · May 6, 2024
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"... the commercial war of the future won't be about [product] value or quality, it'll be about identity. Are you the kind of person who buys this product rather than, is this a product that does more for you."
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