What is an anarchist approach to cults? by SocialistCredit in Anarchy101
[–]acebush1 21 points 22 points 23 points 3 days ago (0 children)
Whiteness erases culture.
Conformity to whatever some authority declare to be “the culture” is not going to somehow stop the creation of cults but exacerbate the conditions which create them.
Right. You’re actually agreeing with the comment you’re replying to here, so I think you are misunderstanding what culture is. Culture is not conformity; culture arises spontaneously and intentionally from social interaction, and conformity stifles that process. In fact conforming to an authoritarian, prescribed culture such as, I dunno, settler colonial culture, requires the sacrifice of ethnic culture and the autonomy that creates it. And this tends to create a negative feedback loop where, lacking culture, members of the in-group seek to fill the void by further conforming to the prescribed culture by shedding their actual cultural heritage and their ability to create it. So we see the link between authoritarianism and culturelessness.