Will Storr

A fucking million?

It's like that kind of a... It's an exaggeration.

You know, a young child, you know, you're getting what is the youngest suicide bomber they've ever used?

I don't know.

Just the idea that you can buy into it so much that you're willing to let your children go do that.

Yeah, as did the KKK.

People, they can fall into belief structures, and they don't necessarily have to make sense.

But if they find enough supportive people around them that also believe that, then it becomes part of their tribe identity.

And it can be really stupid.

We're fucking way more vulnerable than we like to believe.

That's one of the things that I was saying when I watched those cult documentaries.

Part of me is like, thank God I didn't run into those people.

Thank God.

Remember, you have to wear the purple Nikes.

Right.

Well, that's why, you know, one of the fascinating things about some cults is that they use very bizarre language and that they all agree to it.

They have, like, specific terms that they say.

Like, doesn't Scientologists, they'll call people, they have, like, an abbreviation for someone who's, like, a hostile person?

I don't know.

What is it that they do?