"The author got 'indoctrinated'. I got a deeply ingrained sense of personal responsibility."

Isn't that terrific?? As if there's a difference! That's an SGI cultie's reaction to that great Buddha Jones article about why SGI is a cult, both here: The definitive analysis on why SGI is a cult [author unknown]

What this Rio Ventura person quoted in the title is describing (incredibly longwindedly in the comments) is absolutely indoctrination done right! You are indoctrinated to believe that something...odd...is actually really important AND it's now YOUR RESPONSIBILITY!! Author Unknown describes exactly this "deeply ingrained sense of personal responsibility", but Rio Ventura can't see it:

SGI members proudly state, "I am the SGI," despite the fact that members have no voting rights, no control over the SGI's policies or finances, no grievance procedure for resolving disputes, etc. "I am the SGI" means that SGI members have assumed total personal responsibility for an organization in which they have zero control. So when I criticize the SGI, I know that many SGI members will feel that I am attacking them personally and they will respond with personal attacks on me.

What that means is that, IF YOU BELIEVE "I AM THE SGI", THEN YOU HAVE BEEN INDOCTRINATED and that will cause you to feel a deeply ingrained sense of personal responsibility for something that is absolutely NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY!! Nor should it ever be O_O

Rio Ventura goes into some cultie blahblah about this, that, and the other, but in the end, what WE call "indoctrination", she calls "a deeply ingrained sense of personal responsibility", so she'll continue to regard it as a "plus" and not see that she's being manipulated and taken advantage of. It's clear from her comments that she was never a leader, never made it into the "inner circle" we've discussed. And those on the fringes of the movement, in the "outer circle", really only see what the cult allows them to see. They are never tasked with putting whatever is commanded from "on high" into practice or leaning on people to press them into proper cult behavior or more volunteering or any of that - the "outer circle" people are accepted as basically being warm bodies to keep the meetings populated. No one really expects much from them, but they get the same love-bombing broadcast that's designed to keep the "inner circle" leaders, who are doing the heavy lifting, from burning out and leaving. So they get a big dose of love-bombing for doing NOTHING and thus they think that not only are THEY really great, but SGI is really great, too, because SGI realizes that THEY are really great!

Ha O_O