Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

I much prefer the modern world.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.