Fiction often imitates real life situations. In fact, fiction is a great way to explore and raise awareness about real things.
It's not inherently disrespectful to show real things in fiction, or comparing between fiction and real life. It's all about how you go about it.
Not a cult survivor myself but have spent a lot of time studying them and like statistically if you understand how a cult operates and indoctrinates people you put yourself and your loved ones at a lower risk of being taken in as you will begin to recognise the patterns of indoctrination. There's way more harm in the fear mongering and sensationalising of cults in news media than there is in critically analysing depictions of cults or cult-like communities in fiction. Fiction can be an educational tool and if more people learn how to spot indoctrination methods because they saw someone draw comparisons to a movie they liked, that's a net good.
Please help me find that post because I'd love to reblog it.
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