As a newcomer to Scientology one thing that strikes me as odd is how there seems to be an official Tech for everything - I totally understand the Tech related to processing and the like but why would things like public speaking tech or diplomatic tech be part of church doctrine? I'd like to hear others thoughts on this. Is it just to try to be in control of every aspect of an organization or was it just that Ron started going crazy if he wasn't writing so he had to constantly be writing about _something_?
There are many ways to apply tech. For instance if you apply Normal "find what improved the statistic and do more of that, find what decreased the statistic and do less of that" That is just good common sense. But since this is part of the tech Ron can lay claim to any improvement in any area or company.
Also there are some other good ideas that if you apply on your own are good guideposts and can help. Many of these are in the basic books. Again some seem "new" some are common sense. It is nice for me that there are many of them in these books.
I think the biggest "Tech" problem is that people were not applying these ideas on their own. There is always a senior who applies the tech on the junior and the junior applies it like a robot.
No one thinks any more. Scientologists have trained the thinking right out of themselves and apply tech literally. Even though the idea is to understaand conceptually.
The main reason that Ron likes robots is that a robot can be replaced by another robot. The idea that any auditor can be replaced is good for them. You as an employee are literally worthless. That can make more just like you.
They have the insane idea that an audtor of 30 years experience is the same as someone who has just graduated from the class 5 course yeaterday.
The idea that all auditing is standard is only good for them so they can control the whole scene. That is how they suck in young people who have not lived long enough to understand how important experience is.
Coorporations try to do the same thing, make the employee expendable.. yet isn't that what Scientology is? A corporation? One that has a certain product and exagerates its usefullness and its uniqueness, tell you that all they want to do is help but really wants to make money and if people get help then that is nice too.
I guess I got off the point, my that is my 2 cents.
Now if you want to go into the human rights issue that is another story!