(Sad)
Correct.
Human beings are social mammals.
We are creaturely. We hate to admit this, and this refusal to accept
this actually disempowers us and makes us vulnerable to cult recruitment.
As social mammals we are wired to desire and seek human contact. We cannot balance out our emotions and physiologies in isolation.
When human relationship is disrupted due to death, moving away from family and friends to a new school, travel to a foreign country, a new city where no one knows us, trauma -- we are sent off balance, no matter how many Harvard degrees
and no matter what social sophistication.
We are human because we are influenceable. And that is why we are all vulnerable to cult recruitment -- or to con artists. Look at all the people
who were ripped off by Bernie Madoff.
One friend survived the Sixties and Seventies and beyond without
landing in a cult.
Instead, he became a junkie.
Heroin was his guru.
Kicked heroin years later - then succumbed to late onset paranoid schizophrenia.
Correct.
Human beings are social mammals.
We are creaturely. We hate to admit this, and this refusal to accept
this actually disempowers us and makes us vulnerable to cult recruitment.
As social mammals we are wired to desire and seek human contact. We cannot balance out our emotions and physiologies in isolation.
When human relationship is disrupted due to death, moving away from family and friends to a new school, travel to a foreign country, a new city where no one knows us, trauma -- we are sent off balance, no matter how many Harvard degrees
and no matter what social sophistication.
We are human because we are influenceable. And that is why we are all vulnerable to cult recruitment -- or to con artists. Look at all the people
who were ripped off by Bernie Madoff.
One friend survived the Sixties and Seventies and beyond without
landing in a cult.
Instead, he became a junkie.
Heroin was his guru.
Kicked heroin years later - then succumbed to late onset paranoid schizophrenia.
