A little rant

[aron]

Originally Posted by Freedom

WL's response to western imperialism was that of reacting to a perceived threat, not actually reacting to the fundamental problems of the ideology of imperialism.

I think you hit the nail on the head here. It's like someone growing up in a dysfunctional home, and they go out and mirror that dysfunction in the world, always hating what happened and never realizing that they were unconsciously spreading the very thing they run away from. They don't call Satan the subtle one for nothing.

To me, the poison pill of the LC was always this: they believed that everyone else was wrong, and they were right. It was built into all their "truths", that they recovered the light. So they were immune to correction, to reproof, to adjustments, to pointing out their own errors. How can someone in darkness correct someone who is in the light? Impossible.

Once you bite firmly on that hook, it is very hard to wriggle free. Many of us were outside the program physically for years, yet we were still firmly convinced the program was right.