Friday, April 26, 2019

Why We Join Cults


The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) first appeared online in 2008 and grew to have followers in 70 countries by 2018. Tablet, an American Jewish magazine, has called it “the world’s first Internet-based apocalyptic cult.” Like many others who were drawn in by TZM, I came to realize that it was just another cult version of communist totalitarianism, with an eco-futurist façade, anticipating a time in which a vast global supercomputer would calculate the solutions to all the world’s problems.