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[edit] How to Become a Cult Leader

per Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson, Age of Propaganda

  • Create your own social reality
  • Create a granfalloon
  • Create commitment through a rationalization trap
  • Establish the leader's credibility and effectiveness
  • Send members out to prosletyze the unredeemed and to fundraise for the cult
  • Distract members from thinking "undesirable" thoughts
  • Fixate members' vision on a phantom