Comment by narrator

I think everyone should be familiar with hermeticism because its various mystery cults have been with us since Hermes Trismegistus laid down its principles in Ancient Egypt on the Emerald Tablets. It was where early science like practices like alchemy originated, but that wheat got separated out from the chaff during the renaissance and the more coercive control aspects remained. That part, how to get people to follow you and fight for you and maintain a leadership hierarchy is extremely old technology.

They essentially use this glitch in human psychology that gets exploited over and over again. The glitch is a more generalized version of the advanced fee scam. You tell people that if we just believe something can be true, it can be true. Then we discriminate against people who don't believe in that thing. We then say only the leader(s) can make that thing true, but first you must give them all your power and support so they can fight the people who don't believe in that thing.

Unfortunately, reality is much more messy than the cult leaders would have you believe, and leaders often don't have their followers best interests at heart, especially those who follow blindly, or even the ability to make the thing true that everyone wants to be true, but use it as this white rabbit that everyone in the cult has to chase after forever.