Cult thinking. Groupthink. Black and white thinking. “Loud, vocal thinkers’ and how extreme sound bites dominate the modern media landscape thanks to algorithms, painting a ‘majority picture’ when most people are not living out those extremes in day-to-day lives.

It’s quite a time to be alive, and also a time when it’s very easy to let the fear of something cloud our ability to judge the reality of a situation fully. Is “Apatheism” a new way forward? I’ve always been fascinated by people we turn into our saviours and gurus, as well as charismatic authoritarians who sweep in and seduce us in our personal or collective vulnerable times.. That moment we start rationalising and making excuses for a cult leader, where perhaps a couple of years ago, we’d have been dead against that very thing/person we now defend.

On Monday, I explore the murky waters of freedom, autonomy, cults and social systems with Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law, Adam Scott Kunz, who specialises in cults and political philosophy and has worked alongside the famed Dr Janja Lalich, considered a global authority on cults, until her recent retirement.

This show is NOT an attack on anyone, your beliefs, your religion, the diet you feel healthiest on or other held views, but a show to see how we can ensure we are “critical thinking” and not just believing we are, and how we can balance beliefs with values with freedom and come together on common overlaps that benefit us all and how we all struggle with freedom and belonging and ‘others’. One thing I know for sure after this conversation is that the best thing is to know we don’t know anything for sure. So there you go!

I hope you tune into this fascinating exploration… Alexx x

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Website: www.adamkunz.com

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432. Adam Scott Kunz - The human struggle between freedom and security and how to think critically.