One of the most interesting aspects of cults and coercive influence is how the process of indoctrination installs an unsleeping, internal watchman to oversee one’s full-scale personal transformation. This personal transformation is, first and foremost, a teardown operation: members of coercive groups embark on a righteous quest to condemn and destroy the old self—its gestures, speech (now problematic), patterns of thought, attachment relationships (goodbye to everyone who doesn’t get with the new program), name and self-presentation—and embark on an endless process of self-renunciation/self-transformation.
Internalized transphobia, part 1
Internalized transphobia, part 1
Internalized transphobia, part 1
One of the most interesting aspects of cults and coercive influence is how the process of indoctrination installs an unsleeping, internal watchman to oversee one’s full-scale personal transformation. This personal transformation is, first and foremost, a teardown operation: members of coercive groups embark on a righteous quest to condemn and destroy the old self—its gestures, speech (now problematic), patterns of thought, attachment relationships (goodbye to everyone who doesn’t get with the new program), name and self-presentation—and embark on an endless process of self-renunciation/self-transformation.