GentleWanderer Wrote:What can make intelligent people thinks somebody is so exceptional that they must bow to him ?
Thought reform, which is the new academic word for brainwashing/mind control.
Another interesting aspect that has come out of the research is that people with higher IQs are more susceptible to cults, because they are the seekers and idealists.
One of the best coming out articles I've read was when Paul Haggis left Scientology. He's certainly no idiot, he's brilliant.
He explains the cognitive dissonance process very well. It's like putting something on the shelf that you don't want to look at, and then another and later another... and one day the shelf collapses.