• Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Hmmm could be plausible? Once you lead people into religion you hand over influential power to the cult leaders. Put yourself in the shoes of a media baron whose entire power is derived from being influential, do you want the influence you can exert through your media ownership to be shared with religious cult leaders? Absolutely not.

    Spiritual shit is a competing influencer if you're a media baron. Yes you could bring on the cultists to spread cult shit on your network, but you end up increasingly being forced to do that to remain influential, you hand over more and mover power and influence to them.

    I wouldn't rule it out as a factor. Doubt it's the entire thing, there's probably many contributing reasons.