Sylvanna Devlin

Without delving into the well-documented theories on cult leaders (charismatic and enigmatic – magnetic sometimes) We probably have a cult problem on our hands.

Suicide cults aside, a promise to “fix” or “control” America is likely to come from the inside.

Look at my article on normalized abuse in America. Some of us really do have to suppress saying, “what the fuck is wrong with you” and the feeling is mutual.

We’re all creative and free thinking, or “step in line” or other dichotomies. We argue. God do we argue. We’re legendary for it.

And some of us are getting pretty fed up.

But we can learn to disagree respectfully on issues that don’t involve atrocities and don’t blame nastiness on stupidity.

I’ve thought about this a lot. Others have tried to persuade me my problems are stupid people.

No my problems are with pliable individuals and the manipulative others who are trying to control them or failing that destroy them.

Pliable can be good. But we have a mountain range of thinking styles. And some are harder for others to relate to. But while I can understand a piston I couldn’t fix one.

That takes more hands on object orientation thinking.

Oh boy do I have a list of thinking styles I’ve noticed.

We’re all exhausted and some don’t think and are too stubborn or suspicious of others to let them do the thinking for them.

I usually don’t mind.

Unless a cult leader wants my work to have promised secrets revealed.

She spends her time plotting methods of…

Control

As her vision of a way to fix society.

Let me repeat.

You are all a bunch of argumentative pains in the asses and I love you, but this society is hard to…

Control

And there’s no faster way to directly control the potentially hot tempered than reactive abuse. If you’re not on fire mentally before hand reactive abuse will make it so.

Reactive abuse is about…

Control.

This is all a way to try to get an unruly populace under.

Control.

And Portland is fertile testing ground for a troubled argumentative spot that is struggling with a massive division between those who vote blue and other.

Control, control control.

Because we scare some people with how we all want to control our own lives our way. And they think theirs is better