Community of the Cultish... in the Social Imagination?

 

In order to answer that question, we must look at what defines a cult. 

    A Cult: a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing, and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control designed to advance the goals of the group’s leaders, to the actual or possible detriment of members, their families, or the community. 

    Unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control include but are not limited to: isolation from former friends and family, use of special methods to heighten suggestibility and subservience, powerful group pressures, information management, suspension of individuality or critical judgment, promotion of total dependency on the group and fear of leaving it, etc. [https://pridesource.com/article/definition-of-a-cult/].

What really goes on in the LGBT community? Is there anything cultish about it? Yes, sure there is. How? The LGBT community is a radical gender ideology group which promotes itself as a minority social movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to an idea which is that homosexuals and other self-identifying genders are 'normal' though by biological parameters... false. 

Indeed, the LGBT community does have manipulative techniques of persuasion i.e. pride parades for one which are designed to advance the goals of the group and its leaders to the detriment of all other non LGBT social actors in society. 

Do they promote fear of leaving it? Yes, through psychological pressures such as criticizing and belittling which are to punish a leaver and to label them as a kind of cop-out, or more unfavorably, a tragically misled individual who is being pushed by current moral majority norms to behave accordingly... Some states, have forbidden people to say otherwise.

Now, this post is not in reference to conservative homosexuals who do not partake of the LGBT community and there are many... a little known fact among those in the LGBT community. The purpose of this post is solely to address the LGBT community as a thing in itself. And, it is.

Is it a cult? By and large, it certainly is in the social imagination. Why is that? Because, in the social imagination, for anything to be a 'thing', agreement is necessary. Firstly, for such ideas to form and secondly, for them to be made into a 'social' thing and then to be put into action through subversive means until its recognized by the mainstream as a thing. 

Interestingly, the social imagination is apart from strict concrete physical boundaries such as biology and that is because its not tangible in nature. Yet, most of what we consider to be reality stems from the social imagination. 

Hence, the LGBT community finds its greatest support in the imagination. Ideas such multiple genders and or trangenderism are inherent characteristics of the LGBT community and they can only come to fruition as a thing in itself in the social imagination. 

Now, for such ideas to step out from the intangible of the social imagination and into the tangible world, there must be enough agreement and also agreed upon determination to bring them forward into the world of normalized morality and or agreed upon and necessarily crystalized social facts. 

However, that does not ensure longevity. In many instances, such cultish ideas that come forward from the social imagination, often fade unless the moral majority agrees. So, after a few years, if agreement for such a thing weakens, then it is no longer a sought out fact but an artifact to be tossed aside or buried as a thing of the past. 

Against the LGBT community and in support of long standing social facts, we can look at long lasting social agreements that are most definitely biologically based... Hence, nuclear families with biological children have been the solid standard for social sustainability.