Many groups recruit folks who are already fearful. Then they use fear of outsiders, "the unbelievers" etc. like a boot camp method to mold followers to do what they're told externally. Just break down their internal censors and moral sense until they'll do whatever you tell them. Control freaks love pushing them to the point of proof, where they're doing things that make no sense simply because you demand it. Leaders such as preachers of conservative congregations need somebody to point at when fearful people are looking to them for somewhere to dump their excess terror and achieve the bliss of the temporarily-reassured. I don't know, those of us with a bit of internal skeletal structure get really tired of jellyfish.
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Date: 2010-03-12 07:36 pm (UTC)Leaders such as preachers of conservative congregations need somebody to point at when fearful people are looking to them for somewhere to dump their excess terror and achieve the bliss of the temporarily-reassured.
I don't know, those of us with a bit of internal skeletal structure get really tired of jellyfish.