The Anabaptist Jacques
Crusader
Why Scientology and OTs are inherently fascist.
Scientology, in or out of the Church of Scientology, is inherently fascist.
To demonstrate my point I have to draw on something written in the late 1940s.
But it wasn’t written about Scientology or Dianetics.
In the late 1940s two philosophers asked this question: How come, just when civilization was at its most sophisticated, democratic and scientific level, did society produce the barbarism of fascism in general and Nazism in particular?
It was a deep work, but I’m going to try and cut to the chase and how it relates to Scientology.
Their idea is that the individual who seeks power, whether the aristocrats of the past or the leaders of capitalism today, or those in power or seeking power, must differentiate themselves from the others in society.
They have to maintain to themselves that “I am not like them” (meaning others).
Now I am over-simplifying a detailed work.
But the idea is that the one who seeks power must differentiate themselves from those they wish to control.
They must maintain a different idea of self-understanding.
The ruler must think “I alone am in control of myself. My ego or self or mind is in control of my body. That’s not the case for those that are beneath me.”
The problem is that modern scientific rationality has defined this rational ego or self, emptying it of concrete values, sentimental commitments, and religious metaphysics, leaving only a supremely powerful instrumentally rational center of power, whose sense of self flourishes in separating it from all others.
The person becomes an ego that can do anything but believes in nothing.
They go on to say that the more you base social order on reason alone, the more you discover than reason has nothing substantive to say morally.
The more the modern scientific consciousness becomes sophisticated, the more in believes in nothing.
And when it believes in nothing, it is led to use other human beings as objects for them to use to obtain their means.
This is how I view OTs and the idea of being above the other humans.
The moral beliefs of others are discounted and there is no restraint on the OTs or the Church in getting what they want.
And even those in the Church who are beneath them are objects to be used.
So long as you have a person who believes himself to be above others (not just better at things but above them in quality of being) you get someone whose operating basis will not be to work with others for consensus but instead will use others as a means toward his own ends.
It is what the Church of Scientology does; it is what OTs strive to be able to do.
You can see remnants on this board, even from exes and definitely from trolls, whose smug self-certainty about how much better they are than others.
But it is even clearer in the actions and activities of believers in the states of OT.
There are not all entirely fascists, but even the kind ones believe they are special and above the rest.
They may be of good manners, but I would argue that is their form of manipulation rather than a sincere belief in equality.
The Anabaptist Jacques
Scientology, in or out of the Church of Scientology, is inherently fascist.
To demonstrate my point I have to draw on something written in the late 1940s.
But it wasn’t written about Scientology or Dianetics.
In the late 1940s two philosophers asked this question: How come, just when civilization was at its most sophisticated, democratic and scientific level, did society produce the barbarism of fascism in general and Nazism in particular?
It was a deep work, but I’m going to try and cut to the chase and how it relates to Scientology.
Their idea is that the individual who seeks power, whether the aristocrats of the past or the leaders of capitalism today, or those in power or seeking power, must differentiate themselves from the others in society.
They have to maintain to themselves that “I am not like them” (meaning others).
Now I am over-simplifying a detailed work.
But the idea is that the one who seeks power must differentiate themselves from those they wish to control.
They must maintain a different idea of self-understanding.
The ruler must think “I alone am in control of myself. My ego or self or mind is in control of my body. That’s not the case for those that are beneath me.”
The problem is that modern scientific rationality has defined this rational ego or self, emptying it of concrete values, sentimental commitments, and religious metaphysics, leaving only a supremely powerful instrumentally rational center of power, whose sense of self flourishes in separating it from all others.
The person becomes an ego that can do anything but believes in nothing.
They go on to say that the more you base social order on reason alone, the more you discover than reason has nothing substantive to say morally.
The more the modern scientific consciousness becomes sophisticated, the more in believes in nothing.
And when it believes in nothing, it is led to use other human beings as objects for them to use to obtain their means.
This is how I view OTs and the idea of being above the other humans.
The moral beliefs of others are discounted and there is no restraint on the OTs or the Church in getting what they want.
And even those in the Church who are beneath them are objects to be used.
So long as you have a person who believes himself to be above others (not just better at things but above them in quality of being) you get someone whose operating basis will not be to work with others for consensus but instead will use others as a means toward his own ends.
It is what the Church of Scientology does; it is what OTs strive to be able to do.
You can see remnants on this board, even from exes and definitely from trolls, whose smug self-certainty about how much better they are than others.
But it is even clearer in the actions and activities of believers in the states of OT.
There are not all entirely fascists, but even the kind ones believe they are special and above the rest.
They may be of good manners, but I would argue that is their form of manipulation rather than a sincere belief in equality.
The Anabaptist Jacques
