The Cult Myth of Los Angeles “This lovely place, cuckoo land, is corrupted with an odd community giddiness…nowhere else do eccentrics flourish in such close abundance. Nowhere do spiritual or economic panaceas grow so lushly. Nowhere is undisciplined gullibility so widespread” (McWilliams 250). When reading this description about Los Angeles one may feel that it doesn’t represent LA as a whole, however with the vast number of cults that migrate here it seems to …showed first 75 words of 1227 total…

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