Narrative Warfare: High Profile Pop Cult Bullshitting

Author and friend of the Retreat David Stewart took the time to talk about some Pop Cult stupidity by Kevin Smith.

Two points to take away here:

1. Pop Culture is not sufficient to replace religion.
2. Folks have done it anyway, and religious thinking is being applied to it, hence why we have a Pop Cult.

This is not surprising, as Dragon Award winner and multiple-time nominee Brian Niemeier observed some time ago. While lacking all of the qualities of a religion, the Pop Cult has just enough to suck people lacking one into it and thus diverting energy otherwise given to that religion to it instead.

As a test, I made this comment in several Comment threads on Doomcock videos decrying Corporate/SJW control of a pop cult idol: "Call it heresy and be done with it." Every time I get that comment highlighted and upvotes are high; if I wanted to be a Redddit karma whore, this would be one want to farm it. I have yet to get any stick for putting it this way; it shows to my satisfaction that they do engage in psuedo-religious fervor over these idols.

I could probably say the exact same thing with other fan channel whine-fest videos with near-identical results.

And I maintain that the problem is that this is idol worship. It's why they are unwilling to just switch to alternatives that aren't so messed up, and it's that idol worship that makes Pop Cultists vulnerable to recruitment into the Death Cult.