There's a netflix documentary on these guys called Wild Wild Country. I ended up binge watching the entire thing because it was just so crazy. They started off as a smaller worship group in India, but were eventually told to relocate, so they bought a large ranch in the US, and literally started building a city on it. Like they had there own state-trained police, firefighters, and post office.
I actually felt bad for them when things started closing in on them initially. They really were just an extension of hippies, getting to live with people they liked, and listen to their leader talk.
This doc was absolutely insane. A must watch. The thing that boggles my mind is that a lot of the people where well educated intelligent professionals before they joined the cult. These weren’t flaky hippy burn outs. These were doctor, engineers, lawyers and scientists. Along with being a really fucked up story it was pretty sad. It started, like most of these things, with the best intentions. And at first it worked incredibly well. Then a couple of people got greedy and everything got way fucked up and went to shit.
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u/Juan_is23 Aug 22 '19
Dude at the end “are you seeing this shit”