Yes, excellent post. Maybe it will help me to understand a bit about why some people, particularly women, seem drawn to charlatans and con artists. I'm wondering how the Jim Jones flock perceived Jones and how they viewed themselves.
Or the Manson girls. You could wonder if they were genetically predisposed to following someone they perceived as a wise guru figure. Their character traits must have been very interesting to research psychologists.
I thought the phenomena of groupies was interesting...until I met a few of them.
Well, the phenomena itself was kind of interesting...the groupies themselves were rather boring.