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...Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.

— Tom Wolfe The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965)

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A cult is a religion with no political power.

It would be all one experience, with all the senses opened wide, words, music, lights, sounds, touch —
lightning.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus … or off the bus."

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)

A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.

Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976)

Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power.

In Our Time (1980)

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