Nevertheless, the media and the vast majority of the American public turned not to religious scholars for explanation and understanding of Peoples Temple, but to self-promoting psychologists and other “experts” affiliated with the anti-cult movement.

lol.

Weisman was unaware that jokes about drinking the Kool-Aid are supposed to be made by an organization’s detractors—not its adherents or evangelists… Forty years on, the lives of hundreds of activists who died hoping to make the world a better place were trivialized into a meme divorced from its referent and clumsily deployed to wrap up an interview at a corporate conference.

So the cult that murdered children (and visitors concerned for their welfare) was maligned and misunderstood, but the cult that jokes about drinking the kool-aid is so dumb that they understand irony.

Buzzfeed is certainly earning it’s reputation here.

Very interesting, thank you for sharing! I’m definitely going to buy this book.