breaking the mancubs: activism as identity
breaking the mancubs: activism as identity how schools became the agent of societal dissolution and how to fix it EL GATO MALO cult brainwashing has a long and unpleasant history. it takes many forms and has occurred in many places but the core process is basically always the same: you strip prior loyalty, sense of self, and self-worth belonging to other community. you make it seem alien, bad, immoral, or unenlightened to “be as they are” and effectively “other” the rest of the world. then you provide a new identity, a new morality, new names for things, and a sense of safety and belonging in a new community. efface identity, strip it down to bare wood, then build it back up. it’s been standard practice for ages for everyone from kool-aid cults to the marine corps. it’s all the same process with the same aims: to make you us and not them. there is a reason the military uses different worlds for everything. it’s not a bathroom, it’s “the head.” it’s not a hat, it’s “a cover.” and ...