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lydamorehouse) wrote2025-06-27 09:23 am
lydamorehouse) wrote2025-06-27 09:23 am
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I'm currently reading a book called CULTISH: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell. It's a book that Mason brought home from college and had in his discard (as in to go out to the Little Free Library) pile. I picked it up because a friend of mine just shared a story about a friend of hers from college who was in a cult in the 1990s. I'm not normally a person who is super into all this sort of thing, but I mean, I did watch all of the 2015 movie, Going Clear about Scientology. The book is a little frustrating because it was written in 2021 and the author skirts around taking seriously Trump's language as fantaticism (even while mentioning it) and that doesn't play well post Insurrection and current administration. Like, girl. You could have punched up HARDER. You were, in fact, on to something.
Ironically, I've been spending my free time doing something that feels cult adjactent.
I'm on the programming committee for this year's Gaylaxicon which I have mentioned a dozen times in other contexts. But, my current work has involved trying to recruit local professionals to attend. I feel a little bit like I'm standing on a soap box evangalizing, hoping to get some curious people to sign up! (Seriously, have you thought about attending?? It's a fun con! You don't have to be queer to go! Membership is currently the low, low price of $80!!)
It's also been kind of time (and energy) consuming.
Very cultish.
Anyway, I am currently waiting for my brother-in-law to text or call to let me know that he's done with his MRIs. This whole week has been a series of tests for him (and, as it happens, the rest of my family.) So, I've been the Rounds Lyft driver, only without the pay. Ah well. That's what family is for.
Ironically, I've been spending my free time doing something that feels cult adjactent.
I'm on the programming committee for this year's Gaylaxicon which I have mentioned a dozen times in other contexts. But, my current work has involved trying to recruit local professionals to attend. I feel a little bit like I'm standing on a soap box evangalizing, hoping to get some curious people to sign up! (Seriously, have you thought about attending?? It's a fun con! You don't have to be queer to go! Membership is currently the low, low price of $80!!)
It's also been kind of time (and energy) consuming.
Very cultish.
Anyway, I am currently waiting for my brother-in-law to text or call to let me know that he's done with his MRIs. This whole week has been a series of tests for him (and, as it happens, the rest of my family.) So, I've been the Rounds Lyft driver, only without the pay. Ah well. That's what family is for.
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I read Cultish a few years ago, and I liked that it covered a bunch of ground that I hadn't really considered before. (Especially as I haven't had much direct experience with cults, maybe it's better not to wait.) Worth reading in (checks notes) 2023, well before the latest presidential campaigns started.
Have you talked about it with Mason? I wonder what a young person thinks of it. (Well, and also I wish I'd known some of everything sooner, but that's kind of eternal isn't it.)
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I meant to read Cultish because I keep hearing good things but maybe I should just stick to listening to podcasts about cults.
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