By Edward Michael Francis (they/them) CultFroggy - The Marching Revolution www.cinemarchmedia.com The psychological landscape of high-demand groups is defined by a sophisticated interplay of environmental control, cognitive restructuring, and emotional manipulation. While the term cult is often colloquially reserved for fringe religious sects, the underlying architecture of totalism—the systematic attempt to dominate human thought and behavior—is observed across a wide spectr

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