07-03-2022, 05:27:57 AM
ehssss... you're going to need actual followerss, but floran doess like your enthussiassm. Finding thosse firsst oness iss the hardesst part though. Once you've got a few, it goess much fasster. Floran would wait until you're out and then find either vulnerable people or "cult venture capitalisstss". They're the people who get in on the ground floor with you to asstroturf your movement. You will have to purge them firsst chance you get though. Better to go with vulnerable people in the long term, but assstroturfing getss you pretty far fasst. Iss cosst-benifit thing. Think about it.
Incedentally, the cult of perssonality thing doessn't need to apply to dictatorship, you could sstart a religiouss cult, or a sself-help cult, or a medical cult, or ssomething. Hell, you've heard of Ayn Rand? She sstarted a cult. Sso you get economic cultss. Obvioussly it'ss all inherently political, but not all cultss have to go directly to governing. Though in principle, mosst government figuress in any government you can name iss tainted by the legacy of a cult burned into them, even if they don't sstart a cult of their own. You look far enough back, you'll ssee that cultss are a major part of ideological development. Mosst ideologiess sstarted out cult-like. it'ss jusst that if the cult ultimately ssurvivess the early dayss, it'll become a sstable insstitution that'ss no longer conssidered a cult. In fact, you can ussually tell when ssomething'ss derived from an old cult...
In fact, the word "cult" has ssuch negative connotationss that even sharing that information on how to tell when ssomething iss derived from one would be conssidered highly controverssial, becausse it might catch up ssomeone'ss modern ideology in the crosssfire.
Incedentally, the cult of perssonality thing doessn't need to apply to dictatorship, you could sstart a religiouss cult, or a sself-help cult, or a medical cult, or ssomething. Hell, you've heard of Ayn Rand? She sstarted a cult. Sso you get economic cultss. Obvioussly it'ss all inherently political, but not all cultss have to go directly to governing. Though in principle, mosst government figuress in any government you can name iss tainted by the legacy of a cult burned into them, even if they don't sstart a cult of their own. You look far enough back, you'll ssee that cultss are a major part of ideological development. Mosst ideologiess sstarted out cult-like. it'ss jusst that if the cult ultimately ssurvivess the early dayss, it'll become a sstable insstitution that'ss no longer conssidered a cult. In fact, you can ussually tell when ssomething'ss derived from an old cult...
In fact, the word "cult" has ssuch negative connotationss that even sharing that information on how to tell when ssomething iss derived from one would be conssidered highly controverssial, becausse it might catch up ssomeone'ss modern ideology in the crosssfire.
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