Huh, I guess you mean cult in a broader “polarization” sense?
Idk, my main point of reference is I recently read is Some Desperate Glory, which was about a cult of terrorists. Polarization generally implies a balanced conflict which isn’t really futile.
Like, where are the democratic and republican parties on the cultishness scale in your model?
I don’t know much about how they work internally. Democracy is a weird systen because you’ve got the adversarial thing that would make it less futile but also the popularity contest thing that would make it more narcissistic and thus more cultish.
Idk, my main point of reference is I recently read is Some Desperate Glory, which was about a cult of terrorists. Polarization generally implies a balanced conflict which isn’t really futile.
I don’t know much about how they work internally. Democracy is a weird systen because you’ve got the adversarial thing that would make it less futile but also the popularity contest thing that would make it more narcissistic and thus more cultish.