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Sorry, that doesn't work, for the reasons given below:
Paul
I'm not sure what "doesn't work" for you, Paul. While Hubbard was alive, what were "standard" were the latest releases, the latest rundowns, the latest grade chart. Standard tech was a changing picture as long as Hubbard was experimenting on us. He never stopped his "research." "Standard tech," for reasonably practical purposes, however, stopped when he stopped producing it. If it wasn't that way, you get an absurdity in which "standard tech" in Scientology is whatever Hubbard did
not produce.
The "Basic Books" contain Hubbard's foundational theories as he synthesized them from many sources, such as Robert A. Heinlein, Joseph A, Winter, John W. Campbell Jr., A. E. van Vogt, Alfred Korzybski, Aleister Crowley, Snake Thompson, Freud, Julia Flavia, Jim Beam.
Procedurally, the Standard Tech rule was very simple. Where Hubbard's technical instructions come into conflict because of new standards, the answer is to apply the later instructions. Persisting with an earlier standard would be squirreling.
You would know that Sea Org auditors had to keep our "High Crimes" in PT, which meant that we had to keep up with Hubbard's technical bulletins. From
KSW Series 11 Executive Responsibility for Technical Excellence:
Hubbard said:
Technical excellence is not just the concern of technical personnel. Administrators and executives alike in all orgs and internationally are responsible for seeing that Scientology is kept working.
Having crashing misunderstood words or no technical training does not excuse any lack of responsibility for ensuring the quality of the technology and may not be used as a justification in any Committee of Evidence that results from out-tech having been found in an area.
HOW TO ENSURE TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE
Whether trained or not, there are many ways in which incorrect application can be detected. Here are just a few ways it can be done, and this is by no means a complete list:
1. Stamp out all instances of verbal tech.
Ref: HCOB 9 Feb. 79 HOW TO DEFEAT VERBAL TECH
HCOB 15 Feb. 79 VERBAL TECH: PENALTIES
2. Make sure you have an established and efficient Qualifications Division.
Ref: HCO PL 31 July 65 PURPOSES OF THE QUALIFICATIONS DIVISION
3. Ensure that high-crime checkouts are done and that the log is kept in PT for inspection by the executives.
Ref: HCO PL 8 Mar. 66 HIGH CRIME
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Hubbard, L. R. (1980 25 January). HCO PL Executive Responsibility for Technical Excellence. Organization Executive Course Technical Division 4 (1991 ed., pp. 33-4). Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, Inc.
The progress of "Standard Tech" followed Hubbard's ongoing research, which required that technical personnel keep up with the bulletins he kept pumping out.
Hubbard's technical bulletins, policy letters, FO's, lectures, etc., came down from Hubbard through his technical hierarchy. Revisions to his material were "assisted by LRH Technical Research and Compilations." According to Rathbun, Dan Koon spent "thirteen years as a senior researcher and writer for the L. Ron Hubbard Technical Compilations Unit." Dan Koon and the rest of the tech hierarchy know what standard tech is, and it's ridiculous to argue otherwise. Lying of course is both senior to standard tech and
is standard tech.
People who wanted to apply earlier renditions of standard tech or who wanted to experiment in other ways, were deemed squirrels and excommunicated. Or they just blew. That's been true since the first splinter group.
Because the tech, "standard" or not, is pseudo science and does not work as claimed in
any environment or time, and never has, we're really talking about the progress of an illusion.
But I absolutely knew on the inside what Standard Tech meant. And it is virtually impossible that members of Scientology's tech hierarchy didn't and don't know what Standard Tech means.