Well, I'm setting us the task of trying to distinguish between them. I leave open the possibility of an enlightened way of looking at the world, which would be noncultish. But short of that, I think mainstream cultures are generally pretty cultish in the ways I lay out here.

See also these related articles:

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/do-all-cultures-start-from-childish-twaddle-6a7cf341d066?sk=0340a347f82ad7b501edf9d01f37bae6

https://theapeiron.co.uk/mass-hallucination-and-the-dream-of-waking-life-a7520e48ca5d?sk=8f1a9f6e56497a7996cf6f3b6724c135

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/is-a-worldview-just-a-weapon-we-wield-in-power-struggles-ffdb3c610d84?sk=f1a0de4410e37a5965fe568ee08b30f9

https://aninjusticemag.com/are-cultures-just-big-compromised-cults-4bad417a3f30?sk=ad17fc40a0acd3c7bb308227671043ff

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/how-the-mass-mind-absorbs-potent-countercultures-bd9368c5c8c1?sk=d968bc785701f03b78abdd725b34daab

https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/have-we-been-conned-into-civilization-d50f2cbcaf02?sk=5e2e4107289e65d94f21946d289938a4

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/how-to-find-the-absurdist-comedy-in-historical-progress-a83e34536b4c?sk=39feec02dfe72f80a91166f98bb1a9cd

https://medium.com/illumination-curated/how-we-hallucinate-the-legal-fiction-of-private-property-e155ac52ce30?sk=5e46fb185742a35c851fd97bca36c1e0