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The growing popularity of cults in a transient, fragmented state of contemporary society

From Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems, by Alexandra Stein loc 6540 and 6588:

But the transient, fragmented state of contemporary society makes this difficult. The world is opening up, becoming global, restructuring itself toward an unknown future. This global sense of anomie engenders a basic existential crisis and fear. In isolation the fear response triggers attachment behavior regardless of the adaptive nature of such behavior in a given situation. Without open, flexible and responsive social supports, there is, therefore, a vast pool of atomized individuals vulnerable to charismatic authoritarian personalities.ii We see this in any number of ways: in the Western countries, particularly those with intensifying isolation and atomization such as the United States, we see fundamentalist totalizing ideologies, cults, religious and political movements and gang activity on the rise.

it is critical to minimize the development of disorganized attachment through interventions and support to protect children who live in frightening, isolated environments.

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