My name is Mark Vissente.

I'm a director, producer, writer, and troublemaker.

I'm most known as the director of the film, What the Bleep Do We Know?

And as one of the Nixium whistleblowers featured in the HBO series, The Vow.

Let's just say, I know a thing or two about cults.

I don't consider myself a cult expert, but I'm definitely an expert in being screwed over,

waking up, and knowing how to spot them. And let me tell you, they're everywhere.

One of my many passions is to help people see patterns of abuse across multiple contexts,

from personal to family to group to societal. It's all the same pattern at every scale. I want to

arm people with the knowledge to recognize and navigate these kinds of abuses so they can experience

true freedom and be their most authentic selves.

Along the way, I'm going to touch on psychology, spirituality, consciousness, morality,

morality, cults, science, filmmaking, media, and philosophy. You never quite know what you're going to get,

as it really does depend on WTF is on my mind.

At the prompting of my amazing audience, you in other words, I've been thinking a lot about the dreaded topic of cancel culture.

And I'd like to share a few thoughts.

And yes, I know I'm waiting into dangerous territory.

But it's worth asking, why is it so dangerous? I mean, it shouldn't be

in a free, open-minded society, right? Cancel culture is in essence a reaction to something that a person

or people or group perceives as not only bad, but perhaps catastrophic

to them or society or their own ideology. I think this is a really complex subject. Not because,

you know, it can't be understood, but because of people's extreme reactivity

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