Remember the blue chicken shills?
That was shilling.
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It is and the cult controlled how it grew by controlling another network - the railways.
The cult new all about networks before most of had a chance to figure it out. They used hundreds of individuals and networks of shell companies that constituted a hidden monopoly. By altering the cost of shipping freight they could steer traffic from one area to another. They did. They laid out the towns then fattened them up for slaughter.