Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.