Vee’s Reviews > Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism > Status Update

I doubt this is meant to be a funny book. But my god it’s given me a few laughs ~

Like why are we, as a collective, like this??? Murder, lies, jealously, debauchery… these cult stories are very wow!

Having said that, I was expecting more in-depth linguistic analysis of cult(ish) language and feel the book isn’t living up to its title :/

Arguably the word “cult” is almost always pejorative, a way to describe groups we don’t like/accept/trust. Hence why it’s so hard to define ~

(Given my longstanding interest in the subject, I’m a bit embarrassed to have never thought of this looool)

Once we define something as a cult we give ourselves permission to distance from the very real/human issues these groups present.