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Behind the Bastards
The book discussed Aum Shinrikyo, the cult that carried out the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. It was mentioned as an example of people who actively sought to be controlled.
Haruki Murakami writing about own Shinrikyo, which is the cult that set off a bunch of poison gas in the Tokyo subway, noted that many of its members were doctors or engineers who, quote, actively sou...
— Episode: Part One: Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Ar...
Episode: Part One: Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI
The book discussed Aum Shinrikyo, the cult that carried out the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. It was mentioned as an example of people who actively sought to be controlled.
Haruki Murakami writing about own Shinrikyo, which is the cult that set off a bunch of poison gas in the Tokyo subway, noted that many of its members were doctors or engineers who, quote, actively sought to be controlled.
Haruki Murakami wrote of the members of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult who sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 killed 13 people.
In his book Underground, Murakami describes most Aum members as having deposited all their precious personal holdings of selfhood in the spiritual bank of the cult's leader, Shoko Asahara.