|
This article is an electronic version of an article originally
published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1994, Volume 11, Number 2, pages 200-210.
Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from
that of the bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic
information in papers that you may write.
Promises and Illusions:
A Commencement Address to the
SUNY Institute of Technology
at Utica/Rome, New York
Herbert L. Rosedale
Abstract
On May 13, 1995, Herbert Rosedale addressed the graduating class of the State
University of New York’s Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome. The address
cautions students against getting so caught up in and thrown off balance by the
modern world’s frenetic pace and seemingly glittering opportunities that they
become vulnerable to hucksters’ promises of complete security or absolute
certainty. The address discusses the deceptive, manipulative ways in which
cultic groups lure the unsuspecting; presents historical and contemporary
examples of otherwise decent people being manipulated into performing evil acts;
and offers certain principles that graduates might keep in mind in order to
avoid the “adoption of a narrow perspective that refuses to see beyond
boundaries dictated by another.”
Full text available through
ICSA E-Library.
|
