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Cults and Cultists A flyer lands on an administrator’s desk, and it’s from a group of his
Flickering lights coruscate from behind the train-car door, and co-workers who stand around smiling the same smile, and he looks at the

the “skyclad” men and women within chant to bring a dread beast flyer and it tells him that he can lose weight, be rich, and become “em-
with the face of a red mandala into this world so they may serve it. powered.” They all have. They feel great. And they want him to join.
The air fi lls with narcotic mist — the beast’s breath. It sounds nice if you look back far enough. “Cult,” from
A computer screen offers cascading AS/400 that instructs its cultus, the Latin. Meaning to care for, to cultivate. The nice-
servants and sycophants to plug themselves in and “download” its ness has since been lost, however. Cults want to care for
desires into their blood.

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