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Sometimes it's about the people, too. It's kinda like how if you're going to take a college class, it's not all about the course description; the teacher can make it either interesting or boring depending on his approach and his pedagogy. Some teachers are just terrible.
Same way with a corporation; they can have a set of values that they set forth, but what really matters is what they practice on a day-to-day basis. The corporate culture can be hard to change because people will have their own little cliques that are hard to dismantle, which rebel against whatever the corporation tries to impose from the top down. These groups then try to recruit more people who are like them (e.g. they may refer people to work there), and repel people who aren't like them (e.g. people may quit if they don't like working with these clique members, or these cliques may find some way to sabotage the careers of those they don't like).
It's kind of like the business world equivalent of the Deep State; you can have an election and change out the figureheads at the top, and announce a new agenda, but the career officers can still wreck or at least delay what the political appointees are trying to accomplish, long enough for the term-limited politicians to be swapped out for new ones again.
Likewise, when you join a religion, you're not just accepting a belief system, but you're becoming part of a community that consists of a certain group of people. Different groups of people can interpret and apply the same holy text very differently. It's kind of like how the U.S. Constitution is interpreted quite differently than back in the 18th and 19th centuries. What matters is not just what's written on paper, but who's on the Supreme Court.
Why do people hang around Incels.co, despite the leadership's being hypocritical and asshole-ish, and the site's ideology being either whiny or incoherent or arguably whitepilled to the point of being bluepilled? Because they like their peers who hang out there. The people make a big difference.
Part of what makes Mormonism special is that it's attracted a high-quality group of whites. Part of what made the Libertarian Party special were the quirky radicals who wrote the original platforms. This stuff goes away when the quality of the people involved is allowed to diminish, e.g. when compromises are made for the sake of popularity, which then attracts moderates, which defeats the whole point of having a cult. You don't want to let moderates gain control of your cult, or water down its message, or undermine what it's trying to do; they need to submit if they're going to be around at all.
Same way with a corporation; they can have a set of values that they set forth, but what really matters is what they practice on a day-to-day basis. The corporate culture can be hard to change because people will have their own little cliques that are hard to dismantle, which rebel against whatever the corporation tries to impose from the top down. These groups then try to recruit more people who are like them (e.g. they may refer people to work there), and repel people who aren't like them (e.g. people may quit if they don't like working with these clique members, or these cliques may find some way to sabotage the careers of those they don't like).
It's kind of like the business world equivalent of the Deep State; you can have an election and change out the figureheads at the top, and announce a new agenda, but the career officers can still wreck or at least delay what the political appointees are trying to accomplish, long enough for the term-limited politicians to be swapped out for new ones again.
Likewise, when you join a religion, you're not just accepting a belief system, but you're becoming part of a community that consists of a certain group of people. Different groups of people can interpret and apply the same holy text very differently. It's kind of like how the U.S. Constitution is interpreted quite differently than back in the 18th and 19th centuries. What matters is not just what's written on paper, but who's on the Supreme Court.
Why do people hang around Incels.co, despite the leadership's being hypocritical and asshole-ish, and the site's ideology being either whiny or incoherent or arguably whitepilled to the point of being bluepilled? Because they like their peers who hang out there. The people make a big difference.
Part of what makes Mormonism special is that it's attracted a high-quality group of whites. Part of what made the Libertarian Party special were the quirky radicals who wrote the original platforms. This stuff goes away when the quality of the people involved is allowed to diminish, e.g. when compromises are made for the sake of popularity, which then attracts moderates, which defeats the whole point of having a cult. You don't want to let moderates gain control of your cult, or water down its message, or undermine what it's trying to do; they need to submit if they're going to be around at all.