Is the Cognitive Fusion Reactor (ITER-8) a secret society or cult?
Clearly for enthusiasts of conspiracy theory it could be imagined to be so. Increasingly it is recognized that any initiative — even the most conventional — depends for its coherence on the cultivation of a particular culture. If this is unusual, the culture may then be framed pejoratively as a “cult”. Provocatively it might even be asked the extent to which institutions most opposed to change do not themselves cultivate cultures which merit the description of “cult-like” by outsiders. Similar points could be made with respect to “secrecy” when many institutions go to great lengths to ensure confidentiality. Even those within them may be sensitive to the existence of “inner circles” of the better informed often caricatured as a “mafia”. A more interesting response might take account of the extent to which the very frustration with the lack of conventional answers to conventional questions transforms that which has not been understood into assumptions about the core beliefs of an init
