The last time we ran the post about Amway being a disgusting cult, one of our readers had this to say – one of the best responses ever on what it’s like to sign up to the Amway cult:
This sort of thing happens
whenever you join any kind of social group where you are compelled to give up
your personal freedom to choose or to decide matters. All groups by their
nature are conformist and tyrannical.
Cults are the very worst example of this kind of social group. They force you
to obey certain leaders, they limit your range of choices, they dictate how you
may use your time, and they extort monetary payments and other kinds of support
from you.
But most horrible of all, they COMPEL YOU TO THINK AND REACT IN CERTAIN
APPROVED WAYS. You are simply not allowed to have opinions or ideas that run
contrary to what the group and its leaders have. And your speech and behavior
are constantly scrutinized by everyone else in the cult to make sure that you
are not deviating from the cult's approved patterns.
Amway is one of the oldest (and sickest) business cults. The entire aim of
up-line in Amway is to rule over down-line IBOs in every aspect of their
existence. Speech, thought, behavior, dress, deportment, purchases,
friendships, education, and even where you live and what kind of car you drive
-- all these things are rigidly controlled by your up-line, and if you attempt
to deviate from prescribed patterns you will be abused and publicly vilified.
Fortunately, most members of Amway drop out quickly when they realize what they
have signed on for. Up-line rages violently when they do this, but they then
work feverishly to replace the IBOs who have resigned with new idiots.
And this is the real truth about Amway: it has nothing to do with the stupid
products. It has everything to do with being a cult that maintains itself
through intense brainwashing. That's why the Amway speechmakers always talk
about "leadership" and "helping others," while neglecting
to tell anyone how to sell Amway products to retail customers.
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