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Who’s Most Likely to Join A Cult? We Ask a Former Moonie
Cults are having a moment in pop culture right now — and we have a theory as to why. (Spoiler: Trump has something to do with it.) And here’s the thing with our collective cult fascination: after you’ve finished bingeing on hours of content—be it Netflix’s Wild Wild Country, Hulu’s The Path or HBO’s The Leftovers—you’re left with more questions […]
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Why Are We so Obsessed With Cults Right Now?
As a child of the ’90s, I was first exposed to our collective train-wreck-like fascination with cults in the spring of 1997, when 39 members of Heaven’s Gate took their own lives in San Diego, believing it would get them onto an alien spacecraft. And growing up in Quebec, I’d often hear about the high-profile […]
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Why Are People So Obsessed With This 1980s Cult’s Style?
Wild Wild Country, a new Netflix series, details the unbelievably bonkers story of how an entire ashram from India transplanted itself into the tiny town of Antelope, Oregon (pop. 40) and how the supposed utopian community quickly devolved into into a legal nightmare involving wire-tapping, immigration fraud and the single largest bioterrorism act ever to […]
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