Well?.. Are we getting cultish?

SGHolland © June 2022

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Wondering, here, what is the switch that turns people cultish?

Is it quantity of same-minded people that gets us blind and tone-deaf? You know the “fellowship” of fellow believers?

When and with what does such a “tie” “bind” us? There is the “blest be that binds”. and there is also the Nazi Salute!

There are the protocols before certain powerful kings who require no-eye-contact until their subjects are “recognized.” What seems to be fellowship somehow becomes a LAW, a RELIGION, or a SECRET SOCIETY.

What’s the psychology around that?

Is there a certain time when humans crave inclusion? Even in a family…the household of Father/Mother/Children; are there “sides” that people take?

And how permanent is that “side” which is chosen? Life long? Indelible?

I have a grandson who once decided I was not on his “in group” that thought
all people except “his group” were totally racist. It was two years before he said to me “Mommom, that was before I knew better. I thought I knew everything then, but now I know that I know nothing.”

Even though he and I have different perspectives on the strange movement of our common world now, I know he is able to think outside the box he is choosing. He can be chatted with and “get” why there are doubts on all sides of a political conversations.

ALL of us are, like him, aware that we do not know everything — eventually. (I hope.)

But I certainly am concerned about certain people who have not turned
the corner my grandson has turned which informs us that we are not omniscient.

One person talked seriously about “peach-tree dishes.” Is she aware…yet? I think she asked for a “pardon?” The grown-ups should check whether they have turned the corner.

© SGH June 27, 2022