Occupy is hardly a cult

Random Thoughts: "Say you wanted to build a Movement by appealing directly to the Cult Mind, that part of the brain that most desires to be part of a herd. You'd need a slogan to imply that following a crowd leads to Truth. Such a maxim would suggest that being in the majority, or having membership in the biggest tribe, somehow confers moral superiority. You'd want the slogan to be well-suited to sheep, while scrupulously avoiding any speck of human critical thinking."

While I respect the author, he is quite wrong - I feel - in suggesting that Occupy is like a cult. I have some expertise in this matter as the author of a respected book on Jonestown, which was a cult. And as a civil rights movement veteran. Occupy is a movement and possibly even an evolution of nonviolence. Its use of 99 and one percent is specific to the documented stratification that is the product of decades of Reaganism. The zeal with which the above text is written leads me to wonder what lies behind it. Check it out and tell me if you agree.



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