THE CULT DYNAMICS OF WOKENESS:

Before I got involved in studying Critical Social Justice like I do now, I mostly studied the psychology of religion. I took particular interest in the more authoritarian and cultish elements that can spring up within otherwise more reasonable faith traditions. Cult indoctrinations, in particular, tend to follow very predictable stages. First, there is initiation; then there is indoctrination; and then there is reprogramming. These three phases are distinct and must be understood on their own terms.

Lengthy, but very much worth your time.

Found via Richard Fernandez, who quotes in response the greatest and most accurate thing G.K. Chesterton never said: “When a man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.”