Trevor Noah

Sacred science, where you claim to have the ultimate science and moral vision for the thing.

loaded language which are basically thought terminating cliches that because words are the tools we use to think okay so if you can have buzzwords vocabulary fake news changed you know don't think about what the content was yeah label it fake news um what else uh

Demand for purity, which is a perfectionism where they always keep raising the bar, so you always are feeling shameful or insufficient.

So you always are trying harder and harder.

The cult of confession, and that talks about information control, finding everything about your background, and if you are...

feeling guilty over something you did.

They use it against you.

They have people turning in each other if they break the rules.

This is all outlined in my Byte model because I'd taken his model and made it more codified.

One of the most important ones is called dispensing of existence.

And that says if you're in the cult, you have a right to exist.

And if you leave, then you're nothing.

You're a non-person.

You can be killed.

You can be lied to or whatever.

And it's Lifton's description of cancel culture.

Wow.

Wow.

Cancel people.

The right does it, the left does it.