Hubbard baked in a failure to adapt or change in any way, but the beast is taking an inordinate length of time to finally draw its last breath. I suppose that’s because he also baked in so many items that are *nearly* true, or seem at least plausible — particularly at the introductory levels.

Thanks!

Authoritarian organizations, like scientology, unable to adapt to a changing world are inevitable doomed to fail ….
Dogmatism results in organizations unable to learn from mistakes …

There ain’t no fixing it period, you need to wake up. There never was a good scientology. L Ron Hubbard is a evil con artist.

that Hubbard (L Ron Hubbard) is an Extreme Sociopath,

that it is his basic and permeating (all-penetrating) intention,
to enslave people, especially, enslaved to him,
without that they ever notice it:

His efforts were, to find truths BY WHICH to enslave people.
(By hiding the essential parts of these truths, and by attaching a vast amount of lies to them.)

It is the opposite of the adage ‘Truth Will Set You Free.’
But Sociopaths do have (do intend) ‘All in Reverse.’

Applying ‘Truth Will Set You Free,’ you would not merely battle Hubbard’s lies, but also mention the truths THAT HE USES to enslave people with:
Such as utilized in the mentioned promotional pieces of this and any ‘Thursday Funnies.’

30% sales tax. Talk about regressive and suppressive.
There shouldn’t be a blanket exemption for “religions” like scn. Get taxed on what you CONSUME instead of what you make. Interesting idea. Might be the most anti-capitalistic idea I’ve ever heard of, penalizing folks for buying what’s being sold. If there are ANY loopholes in that scheme, you know corporations and criminals like Davey will find ways around paying it. The 5% to 8% that I’ve seen around is bad enough. As if the legislators would let themselves be taxed 30%, or even 10%: There WILL be loopholes they and others can use to minimize their taxation. It’s is dead as the 10% flat tax became.

HIRED!!!!!!!!

the organization calling itself scientology these days certainly is “baroque”, and from what I’ve seen, there ain’t no fixing it until the tiny little dictator is no longer in power.

anon, Hubbard seems to have repeated quite a few ideas from alt-right publications of the John Birch Society era that he read, so something like that could be the original source of the idea. There had been quite a bit of discussion and debate about imposing a national sales tax during World War II, and I recall periodic proposals to impose a European-style VAT, probably going back to at least the 1980s though I can’t say for certain.

“Scientology Baroque” is a keenly apt term. The COS opulent imagery probably goes back to Hubbard’s “Marketing Series” Policy Letters issued in the late seventies and early eighties. He even wrote Bulletiins and PLs on art, design, and aesthetics. In his mind, all that swanky glitz represents the success and prosperity of his grand organization.

And your term is a good description of their entire culture as a whole. Everything about the COS is out of date and out of style, a living anachronism based on Hubbard’s views he formulated in the fifties and sixties. They can’t modernize, much less conform to accepted contemporary standards. The scriptures of Hubbard are the first, last, and only words by which this archaic group can operate.