Two parts into this and I am still not sure what Synanon is. Oh yes it started out as basically rehab, but soon that comes to an end and now they have schools, their own transportation and other things, but what's their purpose at this point? To play the Synanon "Game", which is just a reason to yell at others and get away with it.
I will say you do see the cult like behaviors starting now in Part 2. The mass weddings, the haircuts, everyone dressed in white, etc. Once again the people attracted to this kind of thing are people that feel something is missing in their life. I get why former addicts would stick around as they feel it has helped them. But the others, the "lifestylers" what is their attraction? Some sort of guilt perhaps over making so much money so they have to give it away? I am always interested in that "turn" that people make, just giving everything they have to someone or some "cause."
But now we see the beginning of the end, the Leader getting greedy, making strange decisions, becoming God like, etc. That is right out of the cult handbook.
But again, what is Synanon? The Leader tries to explain this in part 2, only to then say..we need to start a church...hence the cult, but between when they first started treating addicts, to when it became a cult...what was happening, what was it?
I will say you do see the cult like behaviors starting now in Part 2. The mass weddings, the haircuts, everyone dressed in white, etc. Once again the people attracted to this kind of thing are people that feel something is missing in their life. I get why former addicts would stick around as they feel it has helped them. But the others, the "lifestylers" what is their attraction? Some sort of guilt perhaps over making so much money so they have to give it away? I am always interested in that "turn" that people make, just giving everything they have to someone or some "cause."
But now we see the beginning of the end, the Leader getting greedy, making strange decisions, becoming God like, etc. That is right out of the cult handbook.
But again, what is Synanon? The Leader tries to explain this in part 2, only to then say..we need to start a church...hence the cult, but between when they first started treating addicts, to when it became a cult...what was happening, what was it?