Cults offer parasocial relationships centered on “religion” or “spirituality” such as the Moonies, the Witnesses, and Alcoholics Anonymous.

Other cults offer parasocial relationships centered around a “website” or a “social media” site these days , and I think it is destructive for a real world community – be it the Gay and Lesbian Community (or others who “””identify””” their way into the Gay and Lesbian Community so they can gatekeep Gays and Lesbians out of it from their computer screen without participating in it.)

The same goes for “recovery groups” like AA and NA, who IMO should disavow any type of chatroom or online based presence for the same reason:

Using people who lie about their clean time – or that they ever even used or drank at all and aren’t just lonely, psychotic, bored old hags – and “identify” their way in, struggle session or hack you to oblivion until they “own” or control it and can now gatekeep you out of it from a computer screen without actually participating in any meaningful sense in AA , NA, etc in real life.

Mixing with people from those groups on Facebook or other third party sites is bad, you are grafting a real world group or community onto a gatekept forum that weaponizes its censorship powers to remove your members who do not agree with their blatant efforts to toss elections or destroy society with psyslop.

Any “relationship” that is primarily in an online forum , or was formerly a real world relationship or activity group that has been co-opted by or moved (grafted) online is a parasocial relationship.

Anybody who does not talk to me because I’m not on one of those things, is a parasocial relationship and that unfortunately includes brainwashed relatives who have decided to allow these sites to graft their personal communications away from a telephone call or a picnic or a card game, to Facebook Messenger.

Or whatever is in vogue this decade, that one certainly isn’t anymore.

All activism,

All interests,

All communities,

All social groups

Ought to resist the temptation to carry it over to one of these censor happy, abusive, propagandized, Pravda / Stasi affiliated psyslop machines.

The best you can do, is roll your own.

— oh fuck em, I’ll just surprise em —