In the unlikely event that the CofS keeps going after Miscavige bites the dick, I imagine there will be a huge pendulum swing in the other direction. New buildings and upstat MEST will be OUT and orgs will go back to using fold-up rickety wooden chairs and card tables in the Academy and so on.
Paul
I doubt there would ever be a pendulum swing. A large degree of the lunacy exists BECAUSE of extant LRH policies in many areas. The fanaticism and absolutist nature of Scientology exists because of Hubbard's policies, NOT because of DM - though of course DM sure adds his own brand of insanity to the mix. KSW is KSW whether Davey is there or not. The view that
we are the chosen people, the elite, the knowledgable few working tirelessly to save every man, women, and child from eternal oblivion, the dedicated team of Tone 40 thetans making it go right against all odds, and that
doing Scientology is a deadly serious activity, will NOT GO AWAY when Davey goes away.
It will be just like when the GO got caught red handed with stealing the IRS xerox paper (jail sentences, Mary Sue, etc). The Church will PRETEND to be all concerned and ready to fix the problem, BUT the problem will never be admitted to be the "Church", but instead, the problem wll be promoted as due to
renigade members of the Church who acted in ways they were not supposed to. The whole disbanding of the GO was a farce. It was done to MAKE IT SEEM like the Church was "reforming", but all they did was transfer many of the same staff to OSA, keep the SAME POLICIES, and continue to do exactly the same things. That whole charade was to keep LRH out of trouble, and to keep the Church moving forward. Others had to "take the fall" for the "greatest good". La-de-la-de-la . . . .
That is what will happen when Davey goes. Just like Pete Townsend wrote and Roger Daltry sang, "
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" (from the great song by the WHO, "We Won't Get Fooled Again". But,
you will get fooled again. And, again and again. The new leaders will act oh-so-contrite, BLAME IT ALL VERY LOUDLY on this power-hungry maverick known as David Miscavige, and then carry on
in exactly the same format. With just more of the same usual control, lies, deception, PR, manipulation, misrepresentation, noisy investigations of critics, overwhleming lawsuits against anybody who causes the slightest problem, and on and on and on.
Hubbard wrote the policies on all of these things, also including those on SPs, SP declares, suppressive acts, and disconnection. The ONLY way Scientology could ever reform is if someone came in and
changed, or
entirely removed a great deal of very BASIC LRH policy. I don't see that ever happening with the official Church. Not ever.
There is no solution other than the
final solution for the RTC-led official Church of Scientology.