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WTF is on my Mind?!

What Keith Raniere told Alison Mack and why it's important.

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

True Crime, Film, Society & Culture, Documentary, Nxivm, Cult, Philosophy, Narcissistic Abuse, Tv & Film, Psychology, Television, Narcissism, Coercion, Coercive Control

4.8706 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

My Thoughts on Cult Mentality and Moral Dilemmas – Alison Mack, NXIVM, and Beyond In this episode: I dive into some deep and personal reflections about the dangers of avoiding moral questions, both in cults and in society at large. Drawing from my own experiences with NXIVM, I talk about Alison Mack, her attempts to question her role, and how Keith Raniere manipulated her into silence. I also explore how this same kind of gaslighting happens beyond cults – in politics, social movements, and...

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0:00.0

Are we the baddies? The thing is you don't want to ask that question. But that's the important question to ask.

0:08.2

She went to him and asked him, am I doing something bad? And his response was really interesting. It was something like, like, what? How the fuck does that work? Well, how the fuck that works is because

0:22.6

the enemy was right about pretty much everything.

0:28.6

My name is Mark Vicente. I'm a director, producer, writer, and troublemaker.

0:34.6

I'm most known as the director of the film What the Gleeve do we know, And as one of the next-in whistleblowers featured in the HBO series, The Vow.

0:41.3

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

0:44.3

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

0:48.3

waking up, and knowing how to spot them.

0:51.3

And let me tell you, they're everywhere.

0:54.6

My mission is to help people see patterns of abuse across multiple contexts.

0:58.8

From personal to family, to group to societal.

1:02.0

It's all the same pattern at every scale.

1:04.9

As you'll hear, I have a pretty salty approach to most things.

1:08.4

So there might be some blasphemy.

1:10.0

One or two sacred cows might get

1:11.6

knocked over, and there'll likely be some foul language. You never quite know what you're going to get,

1:17.3

because it really does depend on what the fuck is on my mind. Hello, those of you on video,

1:24.2

you may notice I'm wearing a very colorful shirt which is not usual I usually

1:28.4

wear like a black t-shirt or something I think it's one of those days I just feel absolutely

1:32.0

insane kind of crazy kind of weird maybe it's the world situation maybe it's the number of

1:37.5

memes I've been consuming last night before I went to bed and the weird dreams I had

1:41.8

anywho life's weird. Mims save us.

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