Main Series: Kitty BITE Back Episode 1: Introduction To The BITE Model of Authoritarian Control

Hey y’all! I hope you all got to read the teaser that was posted at noon and that it has had time to swim around in your brain; and, that possibly you did a quick google search to see what the hell I was talking about. If you did, kudos to you! If you didn’t, that’s okay, we hate participation trophies anyway!

Quick Recap: We are exploring Dr. Steven Alan Hassan’s BITE Model of Authoritarian Control and how it’s related to cults that are in your own neighborhoods; yes, I’m talking to you, too.

So, let’s just jump right in baby!

(From here on out I will be referring to Dr. Steven Alan Hassan as SAH.)

SAH breaks up authoritarian control into 4 main categories. And each category has a minimum of 6 components. I would like to go into each component of each category and tell you how my experience relates; and, how your experiences may even relate, as well.

I think the first thing we should do is go over each category of the BITE Model and just kinda, digest it.

*swoosh*

B: Behavioral Control

I: Information Control

T: Thought Control

E: Emotional Control

Within each of the categories, SAH has dived deeper and even created up to 25 components with some having upwards of 6 sub-components that we will get into; when the time comes.

So let me ask you...

B: Has anyone ever tried to control your behavior? Tried to make you act or behave a certain way?

I: Has anyone ever tried to control the information you are allowed to receive and interact with?

T: Has anyone ever tried to control the thoughts you should have? Or more-so... shouldn’t have?

E: Has anyone tried to control your emotional state through deprivation techniques? Or scare tactics?

*cue commercial* “If you have been effected by any of these things we will be describing in the BITE Model of Authoritarian Control, you may be eligible for certain compensation!”

Sorry. Not Sorry. I had to...

So let all this swim in your brain. Visit my Facebook page Darned If You Dont and leave your posts and comments. I’ll have a poll up there going to which parts of the BITE Model you are most interested in.

Until later becomes now, my heart will never be.

-Jezebel Freedom