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sounds like a strange contradiction, but we must accept it. The dictator
really believes that he is God's chosen instrument -- or society's
chosen instrument, if he does not believe in God -- to lead his group,
or possibly the entire world, into the promised land. The resulting
picture is not pleasant and the individual who creates that picture is
easily the most dangerous of all the mentally maladjusted. He has
intelligence, conviction, drive, courage, and will be utterly
unscrupulous -- a combination which calls for serious concern. (25)
Those who knew him will agree that this is a fair description of
Hubbard.
One important clue to the motivations of Hubbard lies in a book he
wrote in the mid 1950s called Brainwashing Manual. Although there
were witnesses that Hubbard wrote this book, he attributed authorship to
the infamous Russian politician Beria, then pretended to "discover" it.
Some of the passages from this book reveal much about Hubbard:
It is not enough for the State (Scientology) to have goals.
These goals, once put forward, depend for their completion upon the
loyalty and obedience of the workers (Scientologists). These engaged for
the most part in hard labors, have little time for idle speculation,
which is good....
Hypnosis is induced by acute fear.... Belief is engendered by a
certain amount of fear and terror from an authoritative level, and this
will be followed by obedience.
The body is less able to resist a stimulus if it has insufficient
food and is weary.... Refusal to let them sleep over many days, denying
them adequate food, then brings about an optimum state for the receipt
of a stimulus.
Degradation and conquest are companions.
By lowering the endurance of a person ... and by constant
degradation and defamation, it is possible to induce, thus, a state of
shock which will receive adequately any command given.
Any organization which has the spirit and courage to display
inhumanity, savageness, brutality... will be obeyed. Such a use of force
is, itself, the essential ingredient of greatness.
And:
In rearranging loyalties we must have command of their values. In
the animal the first loyalty is to himself. This is destroyed by
demonstrating errors
in him ... the second loyalty is to his family unit.... This is
destroyed by lessening the value of marriage, by making an easiness of
divorce and by raising the children whenever possible by the State. The
next loyalty is to his friends and local environment. This is destroyed
by lowering his trust and bringing about reportings upon him allegedly
by his fellows or the town or village authorities. The next loyalty is
to the State (Church of Scientology) and this, for the purposes of
Communism (Scientology) is the only loyalty which should exist.
And, finally:
The tenets of rugged individualism, personal determinism, self-will,
imagination and personal creativeness are alike in the masses
antipathetic to the good of the Greater State (Scientology). These
willful and unaligned are no more than illnesses which will bring about
disaffection, disunity, and at length the collapse of the group to which
the individual is attached.
The constitution of man lends itself easily and thoroughly to
certain and positive regulation from without of all of its functions,
including those of thinkingness, obedience, and loyalty, and these
things must be controlled if the Greater State (Scientology) is to
ensue.
The end thoroughly justifies the means. (26)
Did Hubbard know what he was doing?
The answer is yes. Driven by greed, by his twin lusts for money and
power, he willfully and knowingly destroyed the lives of the thousands
naive enough to follow him.
L. Ron Hubbard -- pied piper of the soul....
Notes
- Verdier, p. 11
- Ibid, p. 13
- Rudin, p. 16
- Enroth, p. 150
- Ibid, p. 153
- Ibid, p. 153
- Ibid, p. 154
- Appel p. 77
- Ibid, p. 77
- Ibid, p. 77
- Estabrooks, p. 216
- Ibid, p. 216
- Ibid, p. 217
- Ibid, p. 218
- Ibid, p. 219
- Ibid, p. 220
- Lifton, p. 423
- Ibid, p. 427
- Ibid, p. 429
- Ibid, p. 430
- Ibid, p. 431
- Ibid, p. 433
- Conway & Siegelman, p. 13
- Appel, p. 134
- Estabrooks, p. 223
- Corydon, p. 107-9
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