"I Am Not a Cult"
How Three Prominent Figures Illustrate Leader-Group Dynamics with High-Devotion Followers
What’s the deal with cults, anyway? The question sounds like a lead-in to a stand-up comedy routine. When queried along those lines about their own following, at least three high-profile individuals responded with the exact same phrase: “I am not a cult.”
The phraseology is worth pausing on. Notice the juxtaposition of individual (“I”) and group (“a cult…
