I don't think there is a cause and effect relationship. Success at Hyde predisposes one to enter into a similar relationship with an authority figure where that figure brings you into a set of beliefs that are in opposition to those generally held by the rest of the culture, if the individual found pleasure in that relationship
I agree that it is not as simple as "a cause and effect relationship." But I also think that there is a certain time in the course of a human being's development when nurturing and bolstering the capacity for critical thinking is supposed to happen, and that is adolescence. And that growth stage is absolutely squashed at Hyde, almost by definition, really, of the institution's modus operandi, and sometimes with lifelong consequences.
Interesting that you paint a picture not unlike that of an addict switching poisons as a means to a "cure," and the role pleasure principles play in this. For myself, the Hyde experience proved to be
so toxic that, once I finally got myself back on my feet, I've been
so leery of anything that even remotely smacks of "group" that my life has definitely become the poorer for it. Crippled, really, but maybe that is just my perspective. Well... at least I am still alive.
Didn't Paul play Jesus in some production?
Ha ha! I can't remember anything like that (not that that means anything), but he certainly would have been a good choice for the part! I can absolutely picture him, clear as a bell (maybe that's my memory?).