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RMA Survivor:
I totally agree. And further, there is some evidence that staff bought in to the programs on some level. I commented on some other thread about how when I was at RMA, there were staff who actually formed "split contracts" with other staff. That they felt a need to run away, whereas it was just a job...couldn't they just quit?
And though many staff came from the local town, the staff all seemed to spend their time off with each other. This had to reinforce the behavior of the collective. That nobody outside the program could possibly understand them. That they too, no longer fit in to normal society just as students who left found it difficult to readjust. And you see this in the way staff move from one program to another, rarely if ever leaving the system they created for themselves.
Did you ever notice that staff seemed to marry staff? How often does that happen in the work place where you marry your co-worker? Some came in to the program already married, and it seemed their spouses tended to work there as well. Lisa and Brett Carrey. Ray Kreider and his wife. Doug and Mona Kim-Brown. Tim and Kathy Brace. Caroline Wolfe and Randy Eide. Dan and Carmen Earle. Dan and Mare Krumptitch. Come work for us, invite the whole family!
Cults reinforce the concept of not being able to function without the cult. It is like being religious and not being able to marry outside of your religion.
And because it was like they were creating their own religion, with themselves as the priests, writing their own dogma as they went along, it was far easier, in my opinion, for a mob mentality to form. Where everything they did was sanctioned by themselves, determined to be good based on group consensus, all acts justified because as priests, they decided collectively they were infallible.
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