Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: The Signs Of A Cult

2) Cults Are Obsessed With Destruction.

The one constant that seems to exist with cults is that they want power — They want to control as much as possible — however, to get that power (And what they intend to do with it, which we’ll get to in the next entry), they almost always seem to believe that it must come by destroying what came before.

Cults are obsessed with destruction.

Think about The Beginners: Their whole ideology is based on this idea of “The End Is The Beginning.” They seek to create a “new beginning” but, it comes after “The End.” Their philosophy hinges on how plants grow out of decaying matter (In this case, walkers) and then applying this idea to humanity and society as a whole. As we’ve seen, this manifests as them trying to kill other groups and destroy their means of trying to resuscitate society back to pre-apocalypse levels: Destroying Tank Town and trying to infect the CRM with the black plague.

Now, not all cults will describe their aims in the same way as The Beginners have. They may also not present themselves in the same sort of way, either, but if you hear someone or some group saying that things need to be “purged,” or they’re getting rid of things that are “obsolete” (Even if they aren’t), or that society is somehow “tainted, and needs to be torn down before things can be rebuilt,” then, congratulations, you’ve discovered a cult, and this is their way of expressing their particular version of their obsession with destruction.

Should you encounter people talking in the fashions I just mentioned, that’s you’re cue to start distancing yourself from those people, because, if, for whatever reason, they don’t like you (Including for the crimes of not wanting to destroy everything or kill people), they’ll decide that you are something that needs to be “swept away to make room for the future”.