By hcob on Skatehive
Chapter threeOn to OT“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”—Kurt Vonnegut, Jnr, Mother NightIn September 1977, I started Art College, and did no more Scientology courses for over two years. I did not question the “workability” of Scientology, but had serious reservations about the increasingly high prices and the incompetence of the organization. I simply could not understand how Hubbard’s extensive research into administration had created such a bumbling and autocratic bureaucracy which churned out inane advertising. BUY NOW! was a favorite slogan. Although staff worked themselves to a frazzle, they seemed to achieve very little. Then there were the little Hitlers who used their positions to harass anyone who did not fit neatly into their picture of normality. But I was puzzled rather than embittered.With most Scientologists, I presumed that Hubbard was “off the lines,” busily involved in “research.” The price increases and the failure to at