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(39KB, 206x266) cults usually pretend to be "family", and each chapter of a cult feels like a family with a tight-knit neighborhood community.
then again those cults usually appeal to the common man, and families are the one bonding unit in which they feel safe, as they were raised with it and it feels natural.
Surely if a child wasn't raised in a family it wouldn't have those preconceptions. This sort of thing is the case with buddhist laotian kids who get sent off to the nearest temple/monastery at a young age.
If we think of raising children with a certain way of thinking in the same trend as military units, trained with a certain way of fighting, we can get a little more dynamic.
In a family usually a guiding father figure is required. How many children can one father figure influence before the children start to feel that they're not individually cared for enough?
Since what age do the kids have to know said father figure for them to become reputable and trusted in their minds?
Do the benefits of bigger families (more direct control) outweigh the negatives (more discontent, easier to rebel)?
I can't possibly begin to imagine what a Discordian upbringing might look like.
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i can see older aged people playing an important role for wisdom or even gatekeeping, but first you have to find old people that would agree with your values, for that you need to have had a stable isolated culture for a few generations, or somehow have managed to convince old people to join your cause, which is not an easy task.
