Comment by idopmstuff
1 day ago
“The sober truth is that religions are the most stable and strongest organizations in the entire world,” he says. “Say I’m a cult, and I’ll joke that my cult is better than your cult because it tells people to eat healthy food and go to bed on time.”
-Bryan Johnson in https://www.menshealth.com/health/a63664080/bryan-johnson-do...
And hey, he has a point. His following is fanatical about stuff like... going to bed early, exercising and eating right.
But not about masking, and subsequently contracting covid, hurting his health more than any of his therapies have helped.
https://x.com/lauramiers/status/1846199554288292232
What evidence do you have that he wasn't masking? That tweet doesn't seem to make any mention about masking, and there are definitely shots of him masking while traveling in his Netflix doc (which is well post-Covid).
Also, those tweets seem pretty nonsensical - she quotes him posting about how he actively acknowledges Covid is very damaging and then attacks him for unrelated things that he does? Seems like those are just the tweets of someone who's a little nuts and hates the rich.
What's the significance of those tweets? He got covid? Who's she supposed to be?
> my cult is better than your cult
That's not possible, because I don't have a cult. That's the point. All cults are bad, they can't be ranked.
It's in the DFW sense: "There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship."
Cults are ideology startups. Most start ups fail. Doesn’t mean they all will.
Cults are scams designed to entrap and abuse people. Everything else is window dressing; their ideological positions will ultimately be changed or abandoned to consolidate the cult leader's power (ie Synanon spent years espousing a commitment to nonviolence, only to turn on a dime and begin arming themselves and carrying out assaults). They're not the nucleolus of "successful" ideologies any more than pyramid schemes are the nucleolus of successful businesses. Some of them will succeed in that they survive and spread, some of what they preach will be reasonable, common sense stuff. But ultimately they're an engine to abuse people and they will create much more misery than anything else.
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> His following is fanatical about stuff like... going to bed early, exercising and eating right.
But that's the point. If he had just posted lots of articles about going to bed early, exercising and eating right, nobody would give a shit.
People know about him because he spends millions of dollars a year on his own personal health, has reached "uncanny valley" level in terms of his appearance, and makes truly bizarre posts comparing the "quality" and duration of his nighttime erections to his teenage son's. So tired of this world where people think stuff like this is something to emulate.