{"id":3600,"date":"2019-06-01T07:59:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T02:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2019-06-01T07:59:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T02:29:32","slug":"cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/01\/cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some tactics for creating and maintaining a cult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Create your own social reality: in simple terms create an echo chamber, limit external sources for news and information. Most modern-day ashrams across India follow these.<\/li><li>Create a granfalloon: make members believe they are part of something bigger, use god or some cause as bait.<\/li><li>Create commitment through rationalization trap<\/li><li>Establish leaders credibility and attractiveness <\/li><li>Send fund members out to proselytize the unredeemed and to fundraiser for the cult<\/li><li>Distract members from thinking \u201cundesirable \u201c thoughts.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Excerpt from &#8220;Age of propaganda.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some tactics for creating and maintaining a cult. Create your own social reality: in simple terms create an echo chamber, limit external sources for news and information. Most modern-day ashrams across India follow these. Create a granfalloon: make members believe they are part of something bigger, use god or some cause as bait. Create commitment &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/01\/cult\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cult&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}