The Many Cults of Lebanon and the Lies that Sustain their Fiction
It takes humans a while to realize they’re being brazenly manipulated, this is because most of us desperately want to trust someone or something, to believe in something that gives our existence meaning. To call one group of people gullible and trusting is to suggest another group may not be equally gullible and trusting. However, there are degrees of gullibility depending on the circumstances and the ethno-cultural ground upon which to build a truly gullible people. From my two decades-wroth of experience living in Lebanon, I can say that the Lebanese rank high on the gullibility scale. One of the most notorious cult leaders, Charles Manson First, we have the almost cult-like devotion to our national homeland, although I appear to have been spared that particular affliction. Ask an Italian American or a transplanted Britt in the Antipodes or any eastern European calling western Europe home, ask them to tell you about their homelands, they’d likely just want to avoid the subject and t