Our Society is Run By a Cult! (Seriously)

A deep dive into the cult-like structure that has spread through academia, media, and other institutions in society. We examine how it separates people from their families, controls narratives, punishes dissent, and aims to erase cultural differences. The cult exploits minority groups as a shield while actually worsening inequality. It is a descendant of European imperialism and is highly effective at inducing trauma and unhappiness in its members.

Malcolm Collins: ​[00:00:00] negative utilitarianism, is the core moral philosophy of the cult. i. e. we will remove pain from people, and that ultimately leads to the logical conclusion , that , we need to not just kill all humans, but prevent any sentient life from ever evolving again.

Like, the cult is, I think, much more extreme than people think and, people can be like, no, he doesn't think that, you're being extreme. Go to a party with your progressive friends. Mention fertility rates are falling. Mention humanity may go extinct. I guarantee you, someone in that room is going to say is it really that bad if humanity goes extinct?

And then a number of them are going to be like, yeah, that's a good point. Is it really that bad if humanity goes extinct? If you don't realize that you are in an insane and dangerous cult, When that is a normalized idea, a normalized thought, I don't know what to say like that's like, wake up you're in the [00:01:00] people who want to end all human life.

You are a supporter of theirs. The people who take your children and put them into a lifetime of debt. You are standing this organization. They are evil. The cult is a descendant of the imperialist European cultivars. It is not a native cultural group.

This is just the newest iteration of European colonialism and genocide.

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Malcolm Collins: We do sort of live in a world today that is controlled by a cult. And it's something that we've talked about in other videos, but we've never really gone that deep on the subject because we talk about it so much that we're like, Oh, there's no use in like a single video on this, but it would make sense to go deeper in on a video.

If you. Look at the way that different cultural traditions and different religions relate to things like truth. You can begin to contextualize the urban monoculture, or the cult as we call it in [00:02:00] the terms of these religious traditions, and what you see is it behaves in a way that is very similar to some of the more either inefficient or abusive traditions but also That it is just a religion,

Simone Collins: but what's interesting about it and why this is important to talk about is never before in human history, to our knowledge, at least has a cult like structure, like crystalline structure been spreading rapidly.

through like the heart of the most powerful elements of society. I guess you could argue that Catholicism kind of did this with the Roman Empire, but I don't even think the impact is nearly as profound.

Malcolm Collins: No, not as much. And it does something very weird that no religion in history has ever done, which is it doesn't require that individuals who are supplicants to it state that they are in this cultural tradition.

So historically cultural traditions were usually mutually exclusive, or at least things that you had to [00:03:00] identify with. You had to say, if you became Jewish. Jewish now or Christian. I'm Christian now or Muslim. I'm Muslim now. The cult doesn't require this. You can be a member of the cult and call yourself whatever you want.

Identify however you want. In fact, that's one of the core things that promises that no matter how you identify yourself, that will be validated by the cult. But it. It changes all of your perspectives and the way that you have to relate to society in a way that is very consistent with a unified cultural practice.

So let me give an example here. So when I'm contrasting and comparing cultures, there's typically multiple ways a culture can relate to truth. So you can look at the Catholic way of relating to truth, which is truce should best be determined by individuals who have spent their lives studying a thing and then have been certified by a central bureaucracy.

Credentials. Yeah. Well, no, like a cast, like a priest cast that [00:04:00] says this is what's true and this is what isn't true. And they've been certified by central bureaucracy and then you have the Protestant, you know, perception of truce, which is to say, well, that cast could become corrupted.

There could be misincentives and therefore truth should always be determined by the individual. Both of these have negative externalities to these ways of seeing truth that are just not relevant to this conversation. If you look at the cult that controls our society right now, it has far moved in the Catholic direction.

Which is to say truth should be determined by individuals who have spent their life studying things and have been certified by a central bureaucracy. The central bureaucracy it has chosen is the academic bureaucracy. So when it is determining what is true through its mouse pieces, so within a lot of cultural traditions, you have mouse pieces, people who sort of go out there and communicate to the members of that religion or that cult what is going on.

So this would be the press in, in, in this structure. And then when they're determining what's going on, they go to their priest cast, which is the [00:05:00] academics and they say what is true. What is not true. Right. Now a lot of people would be like, yeah, but the scientific method is the best way to determine what's true.

I believe that is not what academics practice anymore. They say it honestly viewing the academic system today. It is not based on the scientific method anymore. Even though they say it is though. They say it is, but it's not. It's based on a weird system. So, so some STEM fields are still like aspired to be based around the scientific method, but they are policed by other.

Sort of, ideological police that exist in every university that's departments are dedicated only to conformity with the cult, whether this is a fat studies department or a genders department or you know, whatever department, right? They just go around policing the other departments to ensure ideological conformity and that nothing that is being released by another compartment could hurt the cult's message now with something like.

Physics, this isn't necessarily going to work the research that's coming out of these departments. However, we have something like anthropology or with something like [00:06:00] psychology. This is obviously going to have a significant effect on warping the research that's coming out. And if you look at the replication crisis, you know, we had Spencer Greenberg on here, which has done some great work on this.

If you look at what is the most common correlatory factor with studies that fail to replicate that, however, got published is that they promote something that the cult wants promoted. No, it's true. And it's just a thing. So it is using the centers of power in our society to determine what's true and what's untrue to promote its message.

And a lot of people can be like, yeah, but the other academics are still like, okay. And not biased. This is sort of what I call the Al Jazeera problem. Al Jazeera is actually a great newspaper if you want unbiased news.

Simone Collins: Fantastic publication.

Malcolm Collins: Anywhere in the world except for things that have to do with the Middle East.

Because it's incredibly biased about the Middle East because it's funded by Qatar.

Simone Collins: We have the Epoch Times like that too