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Synanon, originally known as Tender Loving Care, was a new religious movement founded in 1958 by Charles E. "Chuck" Dederich Sr. in Santa Monica, California, ...
A Modern Utopia (1905) by H. G. Wells – An imaginary, progressive utopia on a planetary scale in which the social and technological environment are in continuous improvement, a world state owns all land and power sources, positive compulsion and physical labor have been all but eliminated, general freedom is assured, and an open, voluntary ...
Arcadia (Greek: Αρκαδία) refers to a vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature.The term is derived from the Greek province of the same name which dates to antiquity; the province's mountainous topography and sparse population of pastoralists later caused the word Arcadia to develop into a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.
“Born in Synanon” has all the spooky mind-control elements of the cult subgenre of true crime. But it also has an emotional heart and the uplifting elements of survivor stories as Arkin and ...
Rory Kennedy and Mark Bailey, the filmmakers behind HBO's docuseries "The Synanon Fix," spoke about the group, its followers and the dangers of blindly following a charismatic leader.
Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work. [1] The words poem and poetry derive from the Greek poiēma (to make) and poieo (to create).
A documentary about the rehab center turned cult Synanon is in production at HBO Documentary Films, Variety has learned exclusively. Spanning more than three decades until the early 1990s, Synanon ...
The term gained widespread usage following the publication of Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia. [2] Building upon the work of sociologist Ruth Levitas, [1] social psychologists have tested the functions of utopian thinking among people. [2] [3] Utopia is fundamentally a cultural and psychological concept, existing solely as symbols within people ...