Amanda Montell
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1,990 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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Well, because they get
Even if you come at it selfishly, like it's good for you, it's good for your art.
But I think there is just this hive mind, whether you want to call it laziness, whether you want to call it brainwashing, whether you want to call it conditioning and coercion, I don't know, but there is this profound lack of individuality and critical thinking in the incel space, with like humor as the excuse and as the guise or facade.
It's incredibly cult like in such an unexpected way.
I mean, I think human beings have never been nice.
In some ways, we're sort of better behaved than we've ever been.
I had a narcissism expert ek explain some of this context to me.
Um, Doctor Romani Dravassala, I don't know if you're familiar with her work.
Hell yeah.
She was saying, you know, like narcissism has always existed.
Like anyone who's ever made it into a history book was probably a narcissist.
People have been like killing each other and fucking each other up for reasons that were somewhat justifiable at the time and also not justifiable at all since the dawn of time.
And now, again, I think people are leaning into those time-honored violent impulses.
In part because of the permission structure that those in our government are now providing.
And also, again, in part because it might start out as just a bit.
And then slowly but surely, like the cliche of the amphibian getting heated in boiling water or whatever, slowly, they realize that they have actually turned to legit IRL violence.
Okay, so what you have articulated is sort of like the central ideology of this cult and like every cult, religion, tomato, tomato, they all have one.
But I think it's time for us to talk a little bit more about the structure and some of the, so to speak, patron saints in the cult of itself.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I think this is true of a lot of these sort of more grassroots-y kind of internet cults where there's a lot of debate about what the internal structure should be because it's kind of structured from the bottom up, not the top down.
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