Re:Masturbation abstinence is popular online. Doctors and th...
by BriggyDwiggs42 on Saturday February 10, 2024 @03:41PM
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I mean it’s far larger than a normal cult and not centralized around a figure, but i get where you’re coming from.
Re:Masturbation abstinence is popular online. Doctors and th...
by piva00 on Saturday February 10, 2024 @04:26PM
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I keep wondering if the internet age + social media is helping to create another kind of cult, a decentralised new type of cultish beliefs without necessarily a single charismatic leader but a network of them feeding each other.
It's happening with conspiracy theories, there's no single central figure commanding them but a stochastic machine reeling people in, which then feedbacks into itself.
Nofap has definitely traces of cultish behaviour, I'd like a new word to describe such movements because it seems they will only increase over time.
Re:Masturbation abstinence is popular online. Doctors and th...
by fmobus on Saturday February 10, 2024 @05:44PM
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> It's happening with conspiracy theories, there's no single central figure commanding them but a stochastic machine reeling people in, which then feedbacks into itself.
Interesting view. Kinda reminds me of stuff in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
The current movement bears all of the hallmarks of cults.