Watching a new series on Netflix, "Wild Wild Country", a documentary about the Rajneesh movement in India and later Oregon, the development and later conflicts the cult experiences, it's good, by which I mean it's not a good documentary - aspects of it are simply terrible, but the information, the points of view, well, they're interesting and I didn't know...
"The Cult" might be the wrong words, the members don't seem particularly brainwashed to me, and the "who's right or wrong" here runs into grey water pretty quick, some parts - for example, the showing of the movie about the "the cult" to their new neighbors is particularly hilarious, one can imagine; and the interviews with the locals in Antelope, Oregon are hysterical; what it is is the contrast of 2 very different points of view, the old, established order, and the new generation looking for a little bit more. And it's interesting as well in that whatever methods "the cult" stoops to, you can see how they were radicalized by their environment - the "non-cult" mainstream of white-bread-America, how they took upon themselves the ability to grant themselves the inalienable rights promised to them by the Constitution yet denied to them by their neighbors...
What makes it good is how you can see both sides, sympathize with both points of view, the official, government one that denies "The Cult" rights that really should be theirs, and their own subsequent radicalization and retaliation...
...I'd sum it up as kind of like the "Breaking Bad for Bhagwans"...
I haven't finished this yet, there's still a couple of episodes to go (6 all told), but I'm interested for sure. And then I'll do some Googling and more research...