One of the biggest problems with some scientologists is that they're too lazy/driven/distracted/stupid to bother with the Handle option.
Well, Marty's making up for that. In his role as the good Scientologist being attacked by the evil Scientologist (Misvcavige), despite his occasional angry outbursts, he's handling wogs, DBs, SPs, natterers, bashers, haters, bigots, by-passed charge cases, and failed Scientologists as never before.
Does anyone remember the first 'Can We Ever Be Friends' tape? (it was a tape then). It's less well known than the second one. Both were awful, but I recall how the first one started: It began with an attempt to relax the listener, running a simple process on the listener to place the listener in a c_a_l_m state, where one might imagine he or she might have a floating needle.
Then, after the person's RUDs were - in a sense - IN, and the person was comfortably - one might say - IN session, the Scientology propaganda started.
The envisioned end result was a "handled wog."
The wog may not have become a Scientologist, but he no longer opposes Scientology and will not natter about Scientology.
In Marty's case, the envisioned end result is a handled wog (or ex) who will only oppose or natter about "Miscavology," but not about Hubbardology.
Miscavige is the new scapegoat.
We are the wogs (or ex's) being handled.
And, distracted by - almost entranced by - the good Scientologist vs the bad Scientologist show, we are to become like the agreeable drunk:
"He's (hic!) allllllllllllright. You're (hic!) a swellll guy. It's really not im (hic!) portant... annnnyway (Hic!)."
But back to the main topic: I'm still confident that Mark Bunker is too beard and too wise to fall for this "handling."