![]() ![]() Author providedīut this book is not simply a survival story. Daniella Mestyanek Young explores the systems of control in which toxicity can thrive, from within a cult and then the US army. At 15, she fled what she would come to recognise as a cult, made her way to Texas and put herself through school and college, eventually graduating as valedictorian and joining the US army, where she served as an intelligence officer. Mestyanek Young spent her childhood shuffled from compound to compound in Brazil, Mexico and the United States. (Not to be confused with Anne Hamilton Byrne’s Australian-based cult, also known as The Family.) Mestyanek Young was born into religious cult the Children of God, also known as The Family. Review: Uncultured – Daniella Mestyanek Young (Allen & Unwin) ![]() This sense of suspicion forms a pattern in Mestyanek Young’s life, which she documents with remarkable insight in her memoir, Uncultured, exploring the systems of control in which toxicity can thrive. As she ponders the other bodies lined up in her peripheral vision, all struggling to maintain the same pose, it gradually occurs to her that this feeling - of being owned, coerced, programmed - seems unsettlingly familiar: “Have I just joined another cult?” ![]() On Daniella Mestyanek Young’s first day of military training, she stands among her fellow recruits holding a duffle bag high in one arm above her head. ![]()
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