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I wish I understood why some rationalists find so terrifying the prospect that they might be part of a cult. Or why they so desperately (and publicly!) reject the prospect that anyone might see them as having a leader. I mean, I understand that there's a normative component to both, but I don't get where the sheer power of this fear comes from. It's probably an important aspect of our lack of coordination, but I don't understand it.
For Americans (and the cryonics organizations are American) some special factors apply. David Brin has some nice discussion of the ubiquitous pro-individualism propaganda permeating American print and electronic media. Religion is unusually common and powerful in the U.S. so rationalists have more negative affect towards it and anything that resembles it even slightly.