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  1. Dec 2023
  2. Apr 2022
    1. As a scheme, Scientology worked because it did what all successful religious grifts do: it offered an alienated social group a community and a solution to its defining problems, articulated in the vernacular of its tastes.
  3. Jul 2020
    1. The world is currently overflowing with hard problems, so it is overflowing with grift as well.

      The prevalence of hard problems opens up the door to individuals promoting action that masquerades as a solution, but does nothing to solve the problem – grifters and grifts.