the cult that (eventually) imploded

'the unicorn represents the chances the NHS workers will get a decent pay rise.' - comment on the winter solstice sunrise at stonehenge 2022 feed. 

horsemouth was up early enough to watch the sunrise from stonehenge (2022) - but only just. (his mobile phone being off he couldn't set himself an alarm and had to rely upon his body and brain and luck to wake him up in time). 

last night horsemouth watched holy hell a documentary made by an ex-cult member of the buddhafield cult. it benefits from the californian sunshine. it's beautiful people in beautiful nature. there's a lot of sunbathing and wallowing in the surf and fun and frolics. basically it looks like the best club 18-30 holiday ever (if what you wanted from life was to be the member of a hippie cult  then this would be a good choice). the aesthetics are great - lots of meditation, lots of going to he gym, lots of ballet. they film  themselves. they build buildings. they do performances. (they also have day jobs).

but there's coercive control here (it's that old guru prinzip). and there's hypocrisy and paranoia. eventually it falls apart, the truth comes out and it splits. the escapees are left full of regret and remorse. 

horsemouth has always been interested in cults. they are churches but also monastic orders.  horsemouth guesses they are like states - he makes that analogy.

'there are moments in history where countries chose their own decline.' - alistair campbell 

and so was brexit probably. or would have been had there been any real interest in its implementation among the political class. instead of the grand plan and the necessary task mere events come along. 

horsemouth thinks everything moves pretty much as it would have done anyway. brexit does not crash the stormont assembly - the loyalists crash the stormont assembly because they don't want to accept that majority has passed from them, they would have crashed it anyway. 

EU citizens in britain lose their votes, but then their vote could never change anything anyway (except if they had been allowed to vote in the brexit referendum itself). the government is cured of any desire to resolve political issues through referendums. one reason for brexit was a failure of political representation - but brexit itself cannot cure this.

true it fucks the economy. but other factors were going to fuck the economy anyway (and a 'strong' economy does not benefit everyone equally anyway - that was the other key reason for brexit). 

and so the euro cult eventually imploded. 

and so the brexit cult eventually imploded. 

except that neither has yet. 

forward to 2023. forward to the equinox. victory to the nurses, postmen and railwaymen.