Discerning death cults from libido cults

Death cult	Libido cult
Individualistic (we experience death alone)	Collectivist (we experience life together)
Emphasis on distinction	Emphasis on accomplishment
“Cold embrace of death”	“Rivers of blood” (bacchanalia)
“All is disgusting” (i.e. all must be eradicated/purified)	“All is permissible in service of ___”
Consciousness is the cause of suffering (i.e. the cause of our problems, the enemy)	Malevolence is the cause of suffering (i.e. the cause of our problems, the enemy)
Therefore, intentionality/the prefrontal cortex must be removed.	Therefore, malevolence/the amygdala must be removed.
Fatalistic	Gnostic
Ahriman	Lucifer
Wishful thinking	Magical thinking
Romanticism	Pragmatism
Unprincipled action is never justifiable	Impure intentions are never justifiable
Primitivism	Civilizationism
Universalist/secular “systems” morality	Particularist/loyalist “people” morality
Inheritance	Competition
Facts	Negotiation
Worships “The One Big Event” that will fix everything	Worships “Continual Progress” that will fix everything
Libido cultists are “stupid/brainwashed”	Death cultists are “losers/perverts”

One very interesting example is how Trump mania transitioned from a death cult to a libido cult circa 2017, just as the Alt-Right transitioned in the other direction.

The way to handle a libido cult is generally to leave it alone and it will tucker itself out and fall apart under the weight of, to borrow a phrase from Marxism, its accumulated internal contradictions. E.g. The recent 2nd amendment rally by Boomers in Virginia. The way to handle a death cult is to escalate persecution until it black pills itself out of existence.