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The dictator may be, generally is, a man of great personal courage. He plays along grimly till the last throw of the dice and meets his fate with his chin up. This may be because he is perfectly sincere. This sounds like a strange contradiction, but we must accept it. The dictator really believes that he is God's chosen instrument or society's chosen instrument, if he does not believe in God to lead his group, or possibly the entire world, into the promised land. The resulting picture is not pleasant and the individual who creates that picture is easily the most dangerous of all the mentally maladjusted. He has intelligence, conviction, drive, courage, and will be utterly unscrupulous – a combination which calls for serious concern. (25)
Those who knew him will agree that this is a fair description of Hubbard.
One important clue to the motivations of Hubbard lies in a book he wrote in the mid 1950s called Brainwashing Manual. Although there were witnesses that Hubbard wrote this book, he attributed authorship to the infamous Russian politician Beria, then pretended to "discover" it.
Some of the passages from this book reveal much about Hubbard:
It is not enough for the State (Scientology) to have goals.
These goals, once put forward, depend for their completion upon the loyalty and obedience of the workers (Scientologists). These engaged for the most part in hard labors, have little time for idle speculation, which is good….
Hypnosis is induced by acute fear…. Belief is engendered by a certain amount of fear and terror from an authoritative level, and this will be followed by obedience.
The body is less able to resist a stimulus if it has insufficient food and is weary…. Refusal to let them sleep over many days, denying them adequate food, then brings about an optimum state for the receipt of a stimulus.
Degradation and conquest are companions.
By lowering the endurance of a person … and by constant degradation and defamation, it is possible to induce, thus, a state of shock which will receive adequately any command given.
Any organization which has the spirit and courage to display inhumanity, savageness, brutality… will be obeyed. Such a use of force is, itself, the essential ingredient of greatness.
And:
In rearranging loyalties we must have command of their values. In the animal the first loyalty is to himself. This is destroyed by demonstrating errors in him … the second loyalty is to his family unit…. This is destroyed by lessening the value of marriage, by making an easiness of divorce and by raising the children whenever possible by the State. The next loyalty is to his friends and local environment. This is destroyed by lowering his trust and bringing about reportings upon him allegedly by his fellows or the town or village authorities. The next loyalty is to the State (Church of Scientology) and this, for the purposes of Communism (Scientology) is the only loyalty which should exist.
And, finally:
The tenets of rugged individualism, personal determinism, self-will, imagination and personal creativeness are alike in the masses antipathetic to the good of the Greater State (Scientology). These willful and unaligned are no more than illnesses which will bring about disaffection, disunity, and at length the collapse of the group to which the individual is attached.
The constitution of man lends itself easily and thoroughly to certain and positive regulation from without of all of its functions, including those of thinkingness, obedience, and loyalty, and these things must be controlled if the Greater State (Scientology) is to ensue.
The end thoroughly justifies the means. (26)
Did Hubbard know what he was doing?
The answer is yes. Driven by greed, by his twin lusts for money and power, he willfully and knowingly destroyed the lives of the thousands naive enough to follow him.
L. Ron Hubbard – pied piper of the soul….
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