Scientology trains good people into becoming SPs to one degree or another, just by having to follow the tech, plans and image of LRH......under the guise of making a better, safer, more sane world, clearing the planet, and the hope of achieving the state of Full OT and Total Freedom. Once those people wake up and get out of the trap, it appears to me that most of them seem to start realizing the mistakes they made and the things they did that were wrong and gradually go back to being the good people they once were.
Great post!
The only thing I would correct is the term "SP" in the first sentence. There is no such thing. An "SP" is a made-up IDEA that correlates very little with actual people. It is a fantasy, like so many of Hubbard's ideas that you list later in your post.
I would rephrase it:
Scientology trains good people into becoming
egotistical, self-righteous, know-best, elitist, arrogant, pompous, pushy, close-minded and pretentious asses.
Some are better and some are worse,
primarily to the degree that the person buys into the delusion (or to the degree that he or she is/was a "natural asshole" in the first place).
I
largely agree with what JustSheila said above:
Everyone here was an asshole to some degree in their time as a Scientologist - the self-righteous arrogance, the stating opinions as facts, considering self and one's exclusive club of Scientologists as having "special knowledge" of "the real truth" and others as unenlightened, stupid wogs were real asshole views and characteristics to those outside scn. Just about everyone changed for the better after they left scn.
The nicest people in scn as a group were the auditors. The meanest people as a group were senior execs and OSA/GO personnel. They were trained to be that way. Both HH and Panda were auditors and both HH and Panda were loved and popular when on staff. Your statement doesn't work in this scenario, and probably not in a lot of others, either.
My only quibble is that there is/was a HUGE difference in HOW MUCH of an asshole any one person became when enveloped within the Scientology delusion. As you say, yes, the higher up, in the Sea Org, management, and the GO/OSA, the MORE of a jerk he or she usually became.
I knew regges who were BRUTAL Sea Org officers, such as Fred Scwartz, and some of the IAS and SP Project regges. They were 100% convinced they were RIGHT, and that taking every last penny from every prospect was the "greatest good". Now, compare that to someone like me who failed horribly as a reg, because I couldn't manage to even pretend that we were truly saving the planet, or that it was okay to bankrupt someone in the name of "salvaging this sector". I suppose, because I was always a bit too "open-minded", and not quite 100% with the fanatical Scn viewpoint, that I managed to remain "nicer" than many others. Sure, for awhile, in the Sea Org, I WAS contributing to the motion, but the MAGNITUDE of the JERKINESS of any person varies immensely.
I do see though that
some folks in Scientology, especially in the Sea Org, RESONATED deeply with the Hubbard nuttiness, possibly because of WHO he or she was deep inside, and found it very easy to become the typical over-enthusiastic, yelling, angry, high-pressured, Tone 40, severe, obsessed and fanatical true believer.
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