There’s a small core of people with an agenda to turn us into a US territory, capture our oil royalties and eliminate public services. There’s also a halo group that are trying to leverage the situation to buy concessions for Alberta from the fed. That halo group doesn’t appreciate the danger of the fire they’re playing with. They are going to sell their children into slavery for the promise of a bowl of soup. The lion’s share of the “movement” (if you want to call it that) is just deeply misguided people who don’t understand they’re being fed lies. Breaking through that information silo is the most critical thing we need to do. The only way to do that is to identify the most weakly connected, build relationships of trust with them, and gradually bring them back out of the cult and keep pecking away at the edges until it’s just the core left and the rest are back in the wider Alberta community. It’s not as herculean a task as it seems, True Believers are a very, very small minority, even within Alberta.
We do need to get past this philosophical abstract idea we can educate them out of the circle. You might convince the outer halo that the risk of using the cult like a weapon is that it will cost them everything when they lose control, and they will always lose control as it snowballs, but you’re not going to deprogram the true believers that way. Oil Cult deprogramming is a much more indirect process.
There’s a small core of people with an agenda to turn us into a US territory, capture our oil royalties and eliminate public services. There’s also a halo group that are trying to leverage the situation to buy concessions for Alberta from the fed. That halo group doesn’t appreciate the danger of the fire they’re playing with. They are going to sell their children into slavery for the promise of a bowl of soup. The lion’s share of the “movement” (if you want to call it that) is just deeply misguided people who don’t understand they’re being fed lies. Breaking through that information silo is the most critical thing we need to do. The only way to do that is to identify the most weakly connected, build relationships of trust with them, and gradually bring them back out of the cult and keep pecking away at the edges until it’s just the core left and the rest are back in the wider Alberta community. It’s not as herculean a task as it seems, True Believers are a very, very small minority, even within Alberta.
We do need to get past this philosophical abstract idea we can educate them out of the circle. You might convince the outer halo that the risk of using the cult like a weapon is that it will cost them everything when they lose control, and they will always lose control as it snowballs, but you’re not going to deprogram the true believers that way. Oil Cult deprogramming is a much more indirect process.