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Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2023-05-30

Books mentioned on CLASSIC: A Digital Cult? The Strange Story of Bentinho Massaro

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One person's cult is another person's inarguable truth, and over millenia many spiritual or cultural belief systems have been called cults. Typically organizations called cults have a few commonal traits, one of the chief of which is isolation.

Ben Bowlin discussed Animal Farm by George Orwell.

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  1. Animal Farm

    George Orwell · at 1:02:58

    Animal Farm by George Orwell is a classic allegorical novella that uses a farmyard setting to satirize the corruption of socialist ideals and the rise of totalitarianism following the Russian Revolution.

    Discussed
    “this is spot on with the pigs in Animal Farm there is a very it's very”
    Ben Bowlin CLASSIC: A Digital Cult? The Strange Story of Bentinho Massaro 2023-05-30 Listen at 1:02:58
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Passing Animal Farm
“This is spot on with L Ron Hubbard AKA The Commodore in Scientology This is spot on with the pigs in Animal Farm”
Speaker CLASSIC: A Digital Cult? The Strange Story of Bentinho Massaro 2023-05-30 Listen at 56:23
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